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I wanted to recommend this book to new engineers looking to up their game: The New Stereo Soundbook. If you’ve ever wondered, how should I pan things? where should I put the microphone? How do I get a realistic sense of space in a mix? How do I physically arrange people in a recording session? There’s a lot of attitude in the amateur recording world, of when someone asks how to make great recordings, “experiment”, “try things”, and the universal answer to every question, “it depends”. This book clicked because it was pragmatic and methodical, and gets into the reasoning behind recording techniques, beyond just listing simple recipes. It has clear methods on how to get 3D sounding recordings, and take the mystery out of mic placement. It covers how the ear uses stereo to give sounds dimension and how to create realism or exploit that for interesting effects. I read it about 10 years ago, and it has been the single most valuable resource, that has helped with recording music, doing live sound, field recording, and running sound and mixing for video production. Highly recommended! It isn’t cheap, but worth every penny.

https://www.stereosoundbook.com/