Sylvia Massy – författare

ÊRecording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording TechniquesÊ dares you to unlearn safe record-making to get out from behind the windshield stick your head out the sunroof and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers engineers and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and explore techniques that fall outside the norm and yield emotionally powerful incredibly personal gut-wrenching and even scary recordings. Joined by Hans Zimmer Al Schmitt Bruce Swedien Jack Joseph Puig Dave Pensado Tchad Blake Bob Clearmountain Linda Perry Michael Franti Michael Beinhorn Bob Ezrin Geoff Emerick and many others this book has the stories tips recipes photos advice diagrams exercises illustrations and jokes that you won't find in any other instructional manual. And what about that cover? ÊRecording UnhingedÊ contains many eye-popping illustrations by Sylvia herself. As if being a celebrated producer isn't enough Sylvia's iconic illustrations bring real and imaginary recording situations to life. Catchy Bass Lines? Engineering Marvels? How to Mic a Chicken?!! Do a swan-dive into the unknown and make studio magic with inspiration from Recording Unhinged.

Shooting pianos, miking chickens, recording bass (guitar, that is) on a submarine. These are some of the unusual recording techniques examined in the book, Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques. Because we all like to “draw outside the lines ” this collection of Sylvia Massy's original illustrations from the book is a great way to whet your appetite for some real adventurous recording. Add your own color and excite your imagination!Since we're all about getting a little unhinged, you might want to make it fun. Try coloring with strange materials while you're at it. Toe-nail polish and highlighter pens. Lipstick and blush. Spilled coffee. You figure it out. Enjoy!And one last tip: you'll find a few special illustrations here that aren't in Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques, including one that if you fold it a certain way (look for the arrows), Neil Peart will turn into the drummer from the Stray Cats, Slim Jim Phantom!

We all know the heroes of the recording industry: Sir George Martin, Al Schmitt, Nigel Godrich, Rick Rubin – people who seem larger than life. In our book, Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques, we imagined some big-name producers as gods from mythology. We envisioned famous recording engineers doing other types of engineering, and mixers as people who mix all kinds of things besides music. Okay, maybe we aren't taking ourselves all that seriously, and why should we, or you? This is a coloring book! We want nothing more than to give you the opportunity to draw all over your favorite audio icons.Enjoy these illustrations from Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques, and be sure to color outside the lines in your own recording projects, just as these great people have done.And it doesn't end here. So raise a colored pencil to future editions of Illustrations Unhinged. Many other great industry icons – past, present, and future – are slated to become immortalized in Sylvia's portraits. Stay tuned!