The Home Recording Handbook

by Martin Newell

"This is not a home recording handbook" says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead it's the long overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It's a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It's a broadside to the music business. It's a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It's a when not to and why not to rather than a how to. It's a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song. It's a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners From Venus. Martin Newell - a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it's probably not a handbook.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

174 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2025