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Summary: THE Book on Mixing
Review: "Mixing Engineer's Handbook" teaches what the engineer greats of various genres do to get great mixes. It has really helped me understand different approaches to mixing, as well as taught quite a few nice tips and tricks. I learned a lot from it, even though I have been recording and mixing professionally for over 10 years. In my bookshelf there are a LOT of books abour recording and mixing, and this one clearly stands out as the best. Another good book I'd like to recommend is "Professional Microphone Techniques", which also features a a nice chapter on EQing. The interviews have also been a great help when making purchase decisions for new studio gear.
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Summary: THE Book on Mixing
Review: "Mixing Engineer's Handbook" teaches what the engineer greats of various genres do to get great mixes. It has really helped me understand different approaches to mixing, as well as taught quite a few nice tips and tricks. I learned a lot from it, even though I have been recording and mixing professionally for over 10 years. In my bookshelf there are a LOT of books abour recording and mixing, and this one clearly stands out as the best. Another good book I'd like to recommend is "Professional Microphone Techniques", which also features a a nice chapter on EQing. The interviews have also been a great help when making purchase decisions for new studio gear.
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Summary: The best I've run across
Review: Are you looking for a "magic book" that tells you exactly how to set your EQ, compressor, or reverb for every situation? The bad news is, that book does not exist, and even if it did, it would surely render hideous results. There are far too many variables involved in recording, mixing and mastering even one single genre of music for any one formula to always work. The good news is that The Mixing Engineer's Handbook offers something even smarter: fundamental information that can be used in a wide variety of applications (just generally making the reader a smarter mixer) wrapped in copious straight-from-the-horse's-mouth tips and tricks from a bevy of the top names in mixing from virtually every genre. The book has enough "hard fact" charts, like the "magic frequencies" of numerous instruments and the forumlae for determining BPM and translating that into ms for delays and reverbs, to name only a few, that I found myself making photocopies of numerous pages to keep next to my mixing board for quick reference. But beyond that, the book offers so much general and ultimately FLEXIBLE advice that I find myself getting smarter about mixing just reading it. Rather than telling a reader how to always start a mix, for example, Owsinski offers five suggestions for logical places to start a mix (drums, bass, etc.) then offers a handful of single-paragraph suggestions by top mixers in various genres to support one idea or another, leaving it to the reader to decide which makes most sense for his/her work. It is the very fact that these suggestions by the pros are often contradictory that really gives a reader a broad perspective, leaving it to the reader to decide with which pro they align their own work most closely. In addition, there is an entire section devoted to detailed interviews with these same mixmasters, which amounts to getting a chance to pick the brains of the tops in the industry. I've tried numerous books on this topic, and this is the ONLY one that I find myself revisiting again and again, both as a reference at the mixer and also as casual reading away from the gear to expand my knowledge. The more advanced engineer will find this book lacking in details; one would need to look elsewhere for extremely micro-level discussions of the function of EQs, compressors, etc. That level of detail is usually only addressed in books devoted exclusively to that one piece of gear. This book, instead, provides the beginning/intermediate mixer -- the home and project studio guy -- an outstanding knowledge base from which to take his/her mixes to the next level.
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Summary: Good if you are at the basic stage but not helping more...
Review: Bobby Owsinski's book is great for the beginners. But regarding the new elecronic era, as a professional I could not get what I wanted, especially regarding the mixing of non-standard sounds and effect processing. Because in our age the mixing business is evolving through an area where electronics is the fighting arena. That's why I give three stars, good for beginning but not for pros.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: It hit the spot. Exactly what i was looking for.
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Summary: Pretty good "conceptual" material.
Review: It is not a real "handbook" in the traditional sense of the word (i.e. a handbook used by mixing engineers), but rather conceptual ideas that point out the key elements of mixing for the beginner. The reality of this book is that the content is based on a series of pretty informative interviews that are transcribed verbatum in 2nd half of the book. The first half of the book is the author's summary of the usable data culled from the interviews, and presented in a organized fashion. The 6 aspects covered (that comprise a good mix) should certainly help beginners start thinking about mixing in ways that don't ordinarily occur to beginners. In essence, what this book does best is to tap into the experience of very experienced engineers, and then present "what the experts do" in various scenarios. There are NOT so much specifics as there are general guidlines. It is not so much "step-by-step instructions" or "hard reference" as it is a "starting point." There ARE useful things like where to start the mix from, and tables that show where to find the EQ frequencies that effect different instruments--for example, to bring out the slap sound on a bass guitar. Further guidlines suggest, which effects and settings (in broad terms) to use to emphasize/de emphasize other aspecs. I'm a beginner, and it has been a good resource for me.
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Summary: Pretty good "conceptual" material.
Review: It is not a real "handbook" in the traditional sense of the word (i.e. a handbook used by mixing engineers), but rather conceptual ideas that point out the key elements of mixing for the beginner. The reality of this book is that the content is based on a series of pretty informative interviews that are transcribed verbatum in 2nd half of the book. The first half of the book is the author's summary of the usable data culled from the interviews, and presented in a organized fashion. The 6 aspects covered (that comprise a good mix) should certainly help beginners start thinking about mixing in ways that don't ordinarily occur to beginners. In essence, what this book does best is to tap into the experience of very experienced engineers, and then present "what the experts do" in various scenarios. There are NOT so much specifics as there are general guidlines. It is not so much "step-by-step instructions" or "hard reference" as it is a "starting point." There ARE useful things like where to start the mix from, and tables that show where to find the EQ frequencies that effect different instruments--for example, to bring out the slap sound on a bass guitar. Further guidlines suggest, which effects and settings (in broad terms) to use to emphasize/de emphasize other aspecs. I'm a beginner, and it has been a good resource for me.
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Summary: Great book. My copy is worn out .
Review: It is worth buying just for those two or three magic tricks you may have been missing from your mix. But its also a fun read, full of interviews that give you a broad spectrum of opinions and war stories from some of the industry's best. Good nerdy discussions/debates on things like modern compression techniques. This book can really fill in the gaps for you and get you caught up with the big boys at the mixing console.
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Summary: Excellent and to the point
Review: Real world advice from a working professional. Actually, many working professionals... the book draws heavily from a couple dozen interviews of some of pro audio's heavy hitters (advice from Bruce Swedien and George Massenberg is always welcome!). Lots of different approaches to common problems and tasks, all specific enough to be of real help. I bought this book 2 weeks ago, and it has already helped me create better sounding mixes.
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Summary: Excellent and to the point
Review: Real world advice from a working professional. Actually, many working professionals... the book draws heavily from a couple dozen interviews of some of pro audio's heavy hitters (advice from Bruce Swedien and George Massenberg is always welcome!). Lots of different approaches to common problems and tasks, all specific enough to be of real help. I bought this book 2 weeks ago, and it has already helped me create better sounding mixes.
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