James' Final Year Project: An investigation into ADT: November 2010

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Audio Engineering Society

scans from research

Sound on sound book of rec & prod pg 49 ADT
Sound on sound book of rec & prod pg 50 ADT
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Sound On Sound Issue Apr 09 Double Tracking

Monday, 22 November 2010

VST Research Links

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Tuesday 02/11/10 Library Session

Books borrowed

Modern Recording Techinques 7th Edition
David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein
(Focal Press 2010)

Modern Recording Techniques 6th Edition
David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein
(Focal Press 2005)

Modern Recording Techniques 5th Edition
David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein
(Focal Press 1997)

The Sound on sound book of recording & production techniques for the recording musician
Paul White
(Sanctuary Publishing Ltd 13 Nov 1996)

The Sound on sound book of Creative recording I effects and processors
Paul White
(Sanctuary Publishing Ltd 1999)

The Sound on sound book of Creative recording I effects and processors 2nd edition
Paul White
(Sanctuary Publishing Ltd 2003)

Music Engineering The Electronics of playing and recording
Richard Brice
(Newnes 1998)

Background information

What is Automatic Double Tracking?

Automatic double tracking, or A.D.T. is the process where we copy a signal and make it sound like the singer or band member overdubbed the exact same thing over the original track. Like double tracking, but cheaper and easier.

ref. http://www.audio-production-tips.com/automatic-double-tracking.html#

Books to read

George Martin, 'All you need is ears' ISBN 0312020449
'Tearing down the wall of sound: The rise and fall of Phil Spector' - Mick Brown
'The Beatles as musicians the quarrymen through rubber souls' - Walter Everett
'The complete Beatles recording sessions' - Mark Lewisohn
'Summer of Love: The making of Sgt. Pepper' - George Martin, William Pearson
'Can't buy me love: The Beatles, Britain & America' - Jonathan Gould (Pg 239)
Abbey Road The Story of the worlds most famous recording studios

mixonline

References/reading list

Sound on sound magazine issue April '09
sound on sound double tracking

Summon search
"double tracking"

popular music vol.18 issue 3 ISSN:0261-1430 Date 10/1999 Pg 357-

Project Proposal with schedule/plan

Project Title: An investigation into Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) including development of vst plugin using the Steinberg SDK

Project Description:

To fully investigate the techniques involved in ADT I intend to;

· Research the history/background of the different techniques associated with ADT that have been developed in order to understand why, how and when they were developed etc

· Research how the implementation of ADT and other such techniques have changed over time, from analog to digital plug-ins.

· Develop and test source code for an ADT VST plug-in using Steinberg’s SDK

· Reference both old and modern recordings that have made use of the techniques I have investigated to determine the success of the VST plug-in developed.

Project schedule/ plan

Monday, 1 November 2010

ADT ( Automatic/Artificial Double Tracking)

Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) is the emulation of the popular technique of 'double tracking' an instrument or vocals in studio recording.

The reason for double tracking is to create a 'richer' sound.