The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production

I read mixed reviews and was unsure whether to make the purchase. I'm very glad I did. I think it was originally done in 1999, and obviously technology has jumped leaps and bounds since then, but I found this dvd very informative and it did not put me to sleep, as almost every single instructional video has. I have purchased several instructional videos over the years for a variety of instruments such as guitar, drums, keyboards, bass and recording, and I think this has definitely been the most watchable, thus probably most useful. Is some of it a bit corny, sure, but I'm sure there was no million dollar budget to make it, either. I feel they put a lot of work into it to make it a little offbeat and mixed humor with information. The information was very very helpful.Again, I highly recommend it and am grateful to the producers of the dvd.

I learned a lot about what is possible, but very little on the nuts and bolts of how to do it. So as long as you understand that this is not for someone trying to learn how to run sound, or how to EQ, or how to tune a system, but rather for someone who wants to take it to the next level.

This book is absolutely revolutionary to me. It is so remarkably simple how he allows you to visualize sound, and it makes things 100x easier to understand. This book is for beginners and advanced alike, and damn, this has taken my sound engineering to the next level. There is a lot of joy to me while reading this book, the joy of actually understanding.

This one of the book I can't be specific at all because everything in this book is great. I don't call it a book but a weapon , the mix solution.

Ok, I'm trying to be fair. Truly. But this book strikes out badly.I thought this was a textbook, since it is listed as being published by Routledge. Nope. It's a vanity press book, written by an author who - while probably a nice guy who is very competent in the studio, and maybe even someone who would make a good in-person mentor - is not, by any stretch of patience and good intention, a writer or editor. This is the 3rd edition; I can't imagine what a mess the 1st Ed. was.But I can forgive bad writing and poor editing if the book contains some nuggets of wisdom from a practitioner. This one... makes that task VERY difficult. This is:1) the author has a lot of very idiosyncratic ideas about sound some of them very much opposed to scientific consensus or standard music/audio engineering practice. Not that bad in itself, since I don't really care what my music teacher thinks about Western medicine, but...2) the author makes a signature error of would-be gurus by reinventing the whole language of the discipline he's purporting to teach, and forcing well-defined concepts into arbitrary structures. For example: there are seven different frequency ranges. Why seven? Because chakras. There are four tools (EQ, Effects, Volume, and Pan). Why four? Because pyramid power... I don't want to come down too hard on this. The guy who taught me how to be a professional bike mechanic thought that vaccines were a government conspiracy and 5G towers messed with natural life energy vibrations and lots more... but, he could also describe how to lace wheel spokes without reference to an occult table showing the astrological correspondences of alloy vs. steel rims.3) The healing power of 432Hz tuning... ugh... I have no time for this.Bottom line: this book contains (I think, I hope) some nuggets of wisdom from a hippy graybeard practitioner, and if you have the patience to suss them out, you might not think the work is totally wasted. It is clearly a labor of love, and it makes me sad to review it poorly. It is always sad when someone tries really hard and pours their heart into a project waaaaay past the point when any outside observer can see the work is failed... The stuff of tragedy. How many hundreds of hours could this guy have spent in the studio, making music, or teaching a couple select apprentices who are willing to tolerate his silly superstitions and quirky system of visualization? That might have done real good for the world. This... This is just sad.

Knowledge

Very informative and easy to follow. Great buy!

I have so many books and videos on mixing it isn't funny. This book/video is the best of them all for cluing one into the spatial nature of mixing. Sure, there is a lot of silly stuff in the video, but that is to break up the monotony of the huge amount of information in this tutorial. This is a conceptual tutorial. If you are looking for exact settings for your effects units for each instrument, you won't find much of that here though there is some of it. This tutorial does run through the common devices like compressor/limiters, EQs, delays etc and explains how to use them to place the different sounds/instruments spatially in a mix. The biggest take away is the limited "hearing" space in which to create a mix and the "crowd control" which must be used to allow each sound to own its space. If you are an engineering minded fuddy duddy, (like me) it will take some self restraint to get past the "fun" David Gibson has peppered throughout this video, but lighten up, and you will learn. The information is there. Be patient and absorb it.

Excelent book. Exactly what I wanted.

This book is full of totally confusing pictures of blobs apparently representing how various bands should sound and I returned it after only a couple of hours because of this.As a professional audio/visual producer, I found it totally confusing with incomprehensible pictures.The pictures seem to be the author's personal way of showing how things should sound but are more suitable for children's books than for adult technical instruction. An audio CD would have been much better; after all, this is supposed to be a book about sound.If you really want to know about this subject, find a better book or ask a sound engineer!

Väldigt bra för att få en visuell bild av placering av instrument/sång/etc vid vissa typer av musik. Så att det enkelt går att överskåda när man mixar. Speciellt genrer man inte känner till själv.

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