DJ Hero 2 will transform living rooms into nightclubs all over again with an entirely new music-gaming experience. Friends and families can become mix masters and singing sensations, experiencing hit music like they’ve never heard it before. With a host of new DJ and vocal multiplayer modes, including innovative DJ Battles, and over 70 mixes featuring the biggest dance, pop and hip-hop hits, DJ Hero 2 delivers the new standard in music & rhythm gaming. With the DJ Hero 2 Party Bundle, 2 DJs can mix, scratch, and sample, on the acclaimed DJ Hero turntable controller, while a vocalist grabs the microphone and sings or raps along with on-screen lyrics. DJ Hero 2 one-ups its predecessor and mixes even hotter tracks from artists including Lady Gaga, Deadmau5, Kanye West, Chemical Brothers, Dr. Dre, Rihanna, and more.

Written in the author’s clear conversational style, with ample illustrations and visual analogies, this book features software agnostic tutorials and “cookbook recipes” for each phase of postaudio processing. The author begins with a section of FAQs from readers of the author’s magazine column. After summarizing the significant points of audio theory, the author describes the preliminaries of setting up a post studio. From there he details every aspect of postproduction – from getting the tracks into the computer, to ‘fixing and mixing,’ to dealing with details of compression and streaming. The companion audio CD contains diagnostics, tutorial tracks, and demonstrations. Audio Postproduction for Digital Video helps you make your soundtracks as good as your pictures with this compendium of professional audio techniques that can be adapted to desktop post. Specializing in sound after the shoot, this book features many practical examples, cookbook recipes, and tutorials.

Companion sound disc: all tracks performed by Matthias Hofer; engineered, recorded, and produced by Dan Cantor.