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Burning Down the House: Ripping, Recording, Remixing, and More!
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by Eliot Van Buskirk
Eliot Van Buskirk
Burning Down the House: Ripping, Recording, Remixing, and More!
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by Eliot Van Buskirk
Eliot Van Buskirk
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Overview
This guide enables readers to produce their own musical projects on the computer, using step-by-step results-based tutorials. Written in an amusing style, this book covers all the major computer audio techniques including ripping and burning CDs, remixing, manipulating and distributing.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780072228793 |
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Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media |
Publication date: | 05/28/2003 |
Series: | Internet and WWW Series |
Pages: | 292 |
Product dimensions: | 7.39(w) x 9.11(h) x 0.66(d) |
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | xv | |
Introduction | xvii | |
Chapter 1 | That's No Computer--It's Your Music Machine | 1 |
What Is Digital Music, Precisely? | 2 | |
The Attributes of a Digital Music File | 4 | |
What Dogs and Children Have in Common | 4 | |
Uncompressed Audio Definitions | 5 | |
Streaming vs. Downloading | 7 | |
Focus on Codecs | 8 | |
The "Analog Hole" | 8 | |
Chapter 2 | What You Need (and What You Don't) | 11 |
What You Need | 12 | |
The Heart of Your Setup | 12 | |
Software Necessities | 16 | |
Players | 16 | |
Adding Plug-Ins and Visualizations to Winamp | 17 | |
Rippers | 18 | |
Burners | 18 | |
Wave Editors | 19 | |
The Curious Saga of CDDB | 20 | |
Multitrack Editors | 20 | |
Loop-Based Sequencers | 20 | |
DJ Software | 21 | |
Live Digital Audio Applications | 22 | |
Chapter 3 | Copy a CD | 23 |
Your Burner Wants a Sidekick | 25 | |
Copying Dodgy CDs | 25 | |
Disc Selector | 26 | |
Data Should Be a Clean-Burning Fuel | 26 | |
All CD-Rs Are "for Audio" | 26 | |
Copying CDs with Exact Audio Copy | 29 | |
Where Did EAC Come From? | 29 | |
Copying a Data CD of MP3s or Other Compressed Tunes | 32 | |
Labeling | 33 | |
Jewel Case Labels | 34 | |
Labeling the CD | 34 | |
The Life of a CD | 34 | |
Chapter 4 | Rip a CD | 35 |
To Encode, or Not to Encode | 36 | |
Ripping to WAV | 36 | |
Ripping to WAV with EAC | 37 | |
Tripping About Ripping | 37 | |
Multiple Copies | 41 | |
Ripping to AIFF with iTunes | 42 | |
Ripping to MP3 | 43 | |
Configuring EAC's Output to MP3 | 45 | |
Installing the Lame Codec | 45 | |
Setting Bit Rate | 46 | |
Why LAME Isn't "Lame" | 46 | |
Ripping and Encoding | 47 | |
Ripping to WAV and MP3 | 48 | |
Open-Source Ripper | 49 | |
Verifying the MP3s | 50 | |
Chapter 5 | Download Music | 51 |
The Straight and Narrow | 52 | |
Band Sites | 52 | |
Free Internet Radio and Downloads | 53 | |
Be an Annoying Music Know-It-All | 54 | |
Don't Have Issues; Get a Subscription | 54 | |
Downloading from the "Gray Area" | 55 | |
Saving Protected Audio | 55 | |
Newsgroups: No Bed of Roses | 56 | |
Internet Relay Chats: Primitive, Yet Effective | 56 | |
FTP Ratio Sites: Under the Radar | 56 | |
Viruses Fear Media | 56 | |
Xochi's Delight | 58 | |
P2P File-Sharing Clients and Networks | 58 | |
Watch Your Step | 59 | |
Centralized Equals Vulnerable | 60 | |
The Freedom Fringe | 64 | |
Delousing Your System of Spyware and Adware | 65 | |
The Future of Downloading | 67 | |
Chapter 6 | Record and Mix Live Audio | 69 |
Setup | 70 | |
The Last Resort | 71 | |
Sound Check | 72 | |
Take It from the Top | 74 | |
Editing 101 | 75 | |
Adding VST Effects | 76 | |
Adding More Tracks | 76 | |
Mixing Down Your Multitrack Recording | 80 | |
Mixing Down to MP3 | 80 | |
Chapter 7 | Burn the Perfect Mix | 83 |
Song Selection | 84 | |
Web Sites About Mixes | 84 | |
Getting Clever with Compilations | 85 | |
Theme Mixes | 86 | |
Mixes for Specific Situations | 86 | |
Preparation | 88 | |
Taking Requests | 88 | |
Normalization and Conversion | 88 | |
Track Order Is Key | 89 | |
Time to Burn | 90 | |
Using EAC | 90 | |
Step It Up a Notch | 90 | |
Using Roxio Easy CD Creator Pro | 91 | |
The Mix Is Burned | 94 | |
Chapter 8 | Digitize Your Vinyl | 95 |
A Clean Connection | 96 | |
Plan A | Pure Digital | 97 |
Plan B | The Analog RCA Output | 98 |
Plan C | Analog Stereo Headphone Output | 99 |
Cables and Electromagnetic Interference | 99 | |
Audiophile Systems, Alternative Configurations | 100 | |
Sound Check | 100 | |
Troubleshooting | 102 | |
Why Phono Connections Are Different | 103 | |
Setting Levels | 104 | |
Recording One Side at a Time | 107 | |
Zapping Pops and Hisses | 109 | |
Exporting Individual Songs | 114 | |
Exporting to Uncompressed WAV for CD Burning | 114 | |
Exporting to MP3 | 116 | |
Chapter 9 | Turn Your Digital Pictures into Music Videos | 117 |
Setting Up the Software | 118 | |
Alternatives for Non-Windows Users | 119 | |
Balancing Songs and Images | 120 | |
Lining Up Pics and Tunes | 121 | |
Think Before You Send | 121 | |
Importing Images | 122 | |
Configuring Images | 123 | |
Adding Music to the Mix | 124 | |
Setting Up Transitions (or Leaving Them Alone) | 124 | |
Exporting Your Creation | 126 | |
Turning Off the Screensaver (if Necessary) | 127 | |
Video Editing Resources | 128 | |
Chapter 10 | Build a Beat and Sample Library on Your Computer | 129 |
Man vs. Machine | 130 | |
What Are Samples? | 131 | |
Collecting Samples | 131 | |
The Legality of Sampling | 131 | |
Buying Loop CD-ROMs | 132 | |
Downloading Samples | 132 | |
Sampling an Audio CD | 134 | |
Time Signatures | 135 | |
Sampling Spoken-Word Recordings | 137 | |
Sampling Vinyl | 139 | |
Sampling Toys, Noise-Makers, or Your Own Voice | 139 | |
Organizing Your Samples | 139 | |
"The Library of Babel": a Cautionary Tale | 140 | |
Sorting by Tempo | 140 | |
Chapter 11 | Broadcast Audio to Every Radio in Your House--Wirelessly | 143 |
The Digital Solution | 144 | |
Portable FM Transmitters | 145 | |
The New Underground FM | 145 | |
Home FM Transmitters | 146 | |
Installation | 147 | |
Pranks (Intentional or Otherwise) | 147 | |
Chapter 12 | Turn Out Your Own DJ Set | 149 |
Preparation Is Key | 150 | |
DJ Mixing | 150 | |
Mixing with Tactile 12000 | 150 | |
Effects, Samples, and Tricky Transitions | 152 | |
Mixing with PCDJ Silver (aka MP3 Mixmaster) | 152 | |
PCDJ Blue and Red (and FX) | 153 | |
Keep 'Em Guessing | 155 | |
Conceptual Transitions | 156 | |
Pre-Fab Transitions and Effects | 157 | |
The Six Degrees Mix | 160 | |
Export the Songs, Spliced Together | 160 | |
DJ-ing the Party | 160 | |
Hooking Up to the Sound System | 160 | |
Chapter 13 | Make a Self-Playing or Self-Burning CD | 161 |
Make a Self-Playing MP3 CD | 162 | |
Arranging the Content | 163 | |
The Incredible Disappearing Album Art | 164 | |
Previewing the Mix | 164 | |
Burning the Disc | 164 | |
Zipping It Good | 165 | |
Changing Skin | 165 | |
Upload a Self-Burning CD to Your Web Site | 166 | |
Obtaining Your Own Web Site | 166 | |
Creating the Applet and Importing MP3s | 167 | |
NetBurn Server | 171 | |
Don't Click the Applet Yet! | 172 | |
Chapter 14 | Create Your Own Internet Radio Station | 175 |
Creating a Launch Station | 176 | |
Sculpting the Playlist | 176 | |
Promoting Your LAUNCH Station | 178 | |
Penny Royalty | 179 | |
Program Your Own Station with Live365.com | 179 | |
Setting Bit Rate and Station ID | 179 | |
Fix Incorrect or Missing ID3 Tags | 181 | |
Uploading and Sequencing | 182 | |
Jump Through the Hoops | 184 | |
Listen to Your Station | 185 | |
Webcasting with Your Own Shoutcast Server | 185 | |
Creating Live Broadcasts with Live365 from Your Desktop Mic | 185 | |
The Open-Source Alternative | 186 | |
Installing Your Own Shoutcast Server | 187 | |
Webcasting and Copyright | 188 | |
Firewalls and Shoutcast Servers | 188 | |
Advertising and Promotion | 189 | |
Close Servers Carefully | 190 | |
Adding Voiceover | 193 | |
Station ID | 194 | |
Bounce Your Shoutcast Stream off a Dedicated Server | 194 | |
Pool Your Resources | 195 | |
Promoting Your Shoutcast Station | 195 | |
Chapter 15 | Remixing 101 | 197 |
Preparation | 198 | |
Sonic Foundry Acid | 198 | |
Manual Beat-Matching | 199 | |
Import the Song into Acid | 200 | |
Mining for Loops with Audacity | 204 | |
Equalize It | 204 | |
Extract Samples | 204 | |
"It's Got a Good Beat, and You Can Dance To It" | 204 | |
Trimming the Loops | 206 | |
Import the Samples into Acid | 208 | |
Add Beats and Stir | 211 | |
Paint to Compose | 211 | |
Icing the Cake | 213 | |
Add Effects | 213 | |
Sound Can Be Dry or Wet | 213 | |
Tips and Tricks | 220 | |
Additional Sample Ideas | 221 | |
Samples and Pitch | 221 | |
Sharps and Flats Have Nothing to Do with Tires | 222 | |
Mad Beat Tweaking | 223 | |
Chopping In and Out | 224 | |
Doubling/Multiplying Beats | 224 | |
Add Glitches | 226 | |
Acid Pro's Chopper | 226 | |
Mastering | 227 | |
Additional Resources | 227 | |
Chapter 16 | Create a Mash-Up Remix | 229 |
"Doing a Missy" | 230 | |
Preparation | 231 | |
Acquiring an A Cappella Track | 231 | |
Preparing the Songs | 232 | |
Quantizing Makes This All Possible | 232 | |
An Easy View | 235 | |
First, the Vocals | 238 | |
Then, Long Instrumental Loops | 238 | |
The Sky's the Limit | 238 | |
Acid Tips | 239 | |
Pitch Shifting | 239 | |
Paint the Music | 239 | |
Arrangement | 239 | |
Response to "A Stroke of Genius" | 241 | |
Mastering and Mixing Down | 241 | |
Titling Your Creation | 241 | |
Additional Resources | 241 | |
Appendix | Legal Considerations | 243 |
The Rights of a Copyright Holder | 243 | |
The Right to Reproduce the Work | 244 | |
The Right to Make Derivative Works Based on the Original Work | 244 | |
The Right to Distribute the Work | 244 | |
The Right to Perform a Work Publicly | 244 | |
The Right to Display the Work Publicly | 245 | |
The Right to Transmit Digitally | 245 | |
Fair Use | 245 | |
Glossary | 247 | |
Index | 255 |
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