Music Purrduction: Audio Fundamentals Explained With Cats
This is the way every music production lesson should be taught... with cats.
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This hand drawn book explains the fundamentals of audio and music production, with cats doing all the demonstrating. From cables and microphones to waveforms, EQ and dynamics, it covers the home studio essentials every producer needs. It's made for visual and neurodivergent learners, and for anyone who has struggled with traditional tutorials.
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Audio Basics
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Learn what sound actually is, from frequency to amplitude, from EQ to Compression.
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Explained
With Cats
Every idea comes with a cat illustration, so the tricky bits finally click and stay in your head.
Visual Learning
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Made for people who learn by seeing. Clear pictures replace dense text, so you can take it in at your own pace.
For Any Beginner
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Perfect for new producers, curious students, and anyone who wants to understand audio without feeling overwhelmed.
Creative Confidence and Music Production: Overcome Your Insecurities
Creative Confidence and Music Production: Overcome Your Insecurities is a practical guide for music producers to tackle self-doubt and navigate the relationship between confidence and creativity, by offering tools to overcome the most common creative blocks.
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The book begins by discussing the interrelationships between confidence, creativity, and working with technology. This is followed by chapters featuring expert tips and practical exercises to help readers overcome challenges such as struggling with confidence in their production process, and navigating the music industry as an artist. Also included are sections that focus on creative music production workflows, providing practical tips on how to find creative direction and how to work through creative blocks, before finishing with real stories from a range of diverse music professionals about their own workflows, what inspires them, and how they overcome doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inspiration.
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Although mainly aimed at music producers, Creative Confidence and Music Production has plenty of insights for anyone in the music industry, and can help beginners, music production students, and seasoned professionals alike, to face their fears and foster confidence in their practice.
Confidence
Practical tools to overcome self-doubt and trust your creative decisions in music production.
Creative Workflows
Strategies to break through creative blocks and develop a workflow that keeps ideas moving.
Overcome Insecurities
Understand common music industry insecurities to finish more music, and build lasting creative habits.
Real-World Advice
Stories and tips from diverse music professionals on staying inspired and navigating challenges in the industry.
