The Art of Recording is a comprehensive study of the relation of audio technology to the artistic aspects of audio recording. It systematizes the common practices of audio, broadcast, and media recording engineers and producers, and gives them a working vocabulary and methodology for evaluating their own work in relation to others in the industry.
Such a valuable book, in today's world of recording where nearly anything is possible, this book will teach you how to actually record WELL, and understand the concepts involved in doing so. Make use of your crazy software full of knobs and whistles and actually learn to record. If you assimilate some of what's in this book, you can make a viable studio out of an IPOD and a tin or can or something:)