This is an excellent book.
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If you would describe yourself as someone who really wants to improve the actual sound of your music, buy this book. I have been producing dance music for quite a few years, but got to the stage where my ideas seemed to be ok, but my productions just didn't sound like I wanted them to ( I wanted them to sound professional ). This book basically tells you a whole load of tips and tricks about how to get all of your elements to sit nicely in the mix, I
used to have one big mess of a mix, but this book has taught me how to create a tighter , brighter, clearer and cleaner mix presented in an easy to understand text.
I would recommend this book for any level of producer and for any genre, but especially anyone who can't quite get that pro sound, and then
as a follow on , buy 'Mastering audio - Bob Katz ' a not so easy read in places, but worth it . for me these TWO books have made ALL the difference.
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Inspirational reading
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This book really has some nice info about the use of compressors, reverbs, delays, tricks for monitoring mixes, and lots more. First it goes through subjects one by one and gives some general info plus a few related quotes from some famous mixing engineers. Although most of these people are professionals and talked about equipment that I will never use the theory was still valuable for me. It's stuff that can easily be adapted to my needs with my PC recording studio using Logic Audio. This book doesn't receive 5 stars mainly because it is a little light for the money. The paragraphs of quotes are repeated in the third part of the book which consists of the interviews in their entirety. Also, the section on surround sound really was of no use to me (or most home recording studio enthusiasts I would think). However, I did find the book a pleasure to read. I am a big reader and was surprised to see how interesting it was to get a little personal insight into some of the mixing techniques and the issues that are taken into consideration. The story about how they got the drum sound for "Billy Jean", for example, was very interesting. So, I am glad I bought this book. I am still looking for more tips and tricks to improve my recording/mixing/production skills but I now have a much better idea of where to start when mixing, what kinds of things to consider, how to use effects more effectively and lots more.
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Reader friendly and interesting
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If you're into home recording or are looking to brush up on your mixing skills in the studio, The Mixing Engineer's Handbook contains plenty of practical tips. I would say that this book is aimed at the beginner/intermediate reader and is easy to follow even with only a little knowledge of sound engineering. It never gets too heavy and is even funny at times! The book covers a good range of topics and interviews with mixing engineers which give a good insight into how the pro's create the hits. I've been mixing for years, and I still found this book useful.
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Excelent book for begginers to experts - Superb!
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Simply superb. This is the defenitive mixing manual I have been searching for years... It includes comments, trips and tricks from many greatest music enginneer's from all time. This book helped me as an amateur mixing engenieer to improve my mixes by far in less than a week. I recommend it.
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superb and really usefull read!!!!
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from the moment i recieved this book things started to fall into place,for years i had been doing things without any guidance with mixed results.in the areas of panorama,eq and compression i have improved,i now monitor really quietly .my mixes have definatly improved ,i now dont feel like its such an uphill struggle all the time.major recomendation!!!!!
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