Distortion in Music Production : The Soul of Sonics (Paperback)

Foreword List of Contributors Preface Part 1: Technology of Distortion 1. A History of Distortion in Music Production - Clive Mead, Gary Bromham and David Moffat 2. The Development of Audio Software with Distortion - Eric Tarr 3. A browser-based WebAudio ecosystem to dynamically play with real-time simulations of historic guitar tube amps and their typical distortions - Michel Buffa and Jerome Lebrun 4. Non-linearity and Dynamic Range Compressors - Dr Austin Moore 5. Low Order Distortion in Creative Recording and Mixing - Dr Andrew Bourbon Part 2: Perception and Semantics of Distortion 6. Understanding the Semantics of Distortion - Dr. Gary Bromham 7. An Ecological Approach To Distortion In Mixing Audio: Is Distortion An Expected, Rather Than Unwanted Artefact? ? Dr Lachlan Goold 8. Towards a Lexicon for Distortion Pedals - Tom Rice and Dr. Austin Moore Part 3: Retrospective Perspectives of Distortion 9. Hit Hardware: Vintage Processing Technologies and the Modern Recordist - Niall Coghlan 10. Even Better than the Real Thing: A comparison of traditional and software emulated distortion in the contemporary audio production workflow - Dr. Doug Bielmeier 11. ‘It just is my Inner Refusal’: Innovation and Conservatism in Guitar Amplification Technology - Jan-Peter Herbst 12. A Saturated Market - Ask Kæreby Part 4: Musicology of Distortion 13. The Studio’s Function in Creating Distortion Related Compositional Structures in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal - Ciro Scotto 14. The Distortion of Space in Music Production - Dr. Matthew Barnard 15. Distorting Jazz Guitar: Distortion as Effect, Creative Tool and Extension of the Instrument - Dr Tom Williams 16. 'Got a Flaming Heart': Vocal Climax in the Music of Led Zeppelin - Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum 17. The Aesthetics of Distortion ? Dr Toby Young Index