Wow! eBook
Recording Techniques of the Guitar Masters
Author(s): Brian Tarquin (Author)
- Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR
- Publication Date: January 1, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1435460162
- ISBN-13: 9781435460164
Book Description
Discover the recording secrets of our generation’s guitar heroes: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Zakk Wylde, Ted Nugent, Billy Sheehan, Larry Carlton, Stanley Clarke, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Leslie West, Robin Trower, Tommy Emmanuel–a total of 30 outstanding players in all. Detailed interviews with these guitar greats explore each performer’s recording techniques and offer practical advice for replicating the unique tone for which each is known. Rounding out the text, multi-Emmy award-winning composer, recording artist, producer, and author Brian Tarquin offers a wide range of hands-on information covering topics such as recording gear, mixing techniques, and guitar and amp choices. The result is a text that empowers guitarists of any skill to take their music to the next level!
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About the Author
The multi-Emmy Award-winning composer/guitarist Brian Tarquin has established himself as a top TV composer/recording artist and owner of Jungle Room Studios. Tarquin first appeared in the Top 20 Billboard Charts in 1997 with the commercial release “This is Acid Jazz, Vol. 2” on Instinct Records. From 1996 to 2001, Brian recorded four solo albums, Ghost Dance, Last Kiss Goodbye, Soft Touch and High Life and has appeared in over twelve Instinct compilations, selling over 140,000 records in his career. Among his other accomplishments are writing the theme music for MTV’s “Road Rules” and producing music for many other TV shows,including “CSI,” ABC’s “Making The Band,” “Extra,” “Alias,” and the Keanu Reeves film “The Watcher.” In 1998, he formed the rock/electronica band Asphalt Jungle. In 2006, Tarquin opened his own boutique record label, BHP MUSIC, specializing in instrumental guitar music. Tarquin is a featured music writer and has been published in such national magazines as EQ, Guitar Player, Premier Guitar, and Recording.
