After a great first chapter one about checking your studio working area and discussing things like microphone placement, sound proofing, click tracks and tempo maps, software like Pro Tools and Reason, editing, headphone mixes and more, the book dives right into the new challenges new recording engineers will face these days. Chapter two covers timing correction using Digidesign's (Pro Tools) Beat Detective and Elastic Time software--a fact of life these days if your tracks are to sound as solidly locked in tempo as what's on the radio.

Chapter three goes into replacing sounds using one of my favorite sample replacers, Drumagog and Digi's Sound Replacer. You'll get some cool tricks on using Melodyne and AutoTune in Chapter four on pitch correction. I like that at the end of all the chapters there is the "Final Word" paragraph(s) that summate the reasons that justify all the work these processed entail.

Chapter five gets you into a primer on effects including compression, equalizers, delays, guitar cabinet simulators and convolution-based effects. Chapter six is about adding MIDI to your masterpiece which naturally leads you to a fine chapter seven on Mixing with loads of inside techniques using reverb, delays, pitch shifting and Pro Tools automation system. The book fittingly ends with chapter eight that encourages you to master your own production.