Distortion in Music Production: The Soul of Sonics
- Editor: Bromham, Gary
- Editor: Moore, Austin
Book
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Contents
- Part 1 : Technology of Distortion
- 1. A History of Distortion in Music Production
- 2. The Development of Audio Software with Distortion
- 3. A browser-based WebAudio ecosystem to dynamically play with real-time simulations of historic guitar tube amps and their typical distortions
- 4. Non-linearity and Dynamic Range Compressors
- 5. Low Order Distortion in Creative Recording and Mixing
- Part 2 : Perception and Semantics of Distortion
- 6. Understanding the Semantics of Distortion
- 7. An Ecological Approach To Distortion In Mixing Audio: Is Distortion An Expected, Rather Than Unwanted Artefact?
- 8. Towards a Lexicon for Distortion Pedals
- Part 3 : Retrospective Perspectives of Distortion
- 9. Hit Hardware: Vintage Processing Technologies and the Modern Recordist
- 10. Even Better than the Real Thing: A comparison of traditional and software emulated distortion in the contemporary audio production workflow
- 11. 'It just is my Inner Refusal': Innovation and Conservatism in Guitar Amplification Technology
- 12. A Saturated Market
- Part 4 : Musicology of Distortion
- 13. The Studio's Function in Creating Distortion Related Compositional Structures in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
- 14. The Distortion of Space in Music Production
- 15. Distorting Jazz Guitar: Distortion as Effect, Creative Tool and Extension of the Instrument
- 16. 'Got a Flaming Heart': Vocal Climax in the Music of Led Zeppelin
- 17. The Aesthetics of Distortion