Product Description

Basic Mixing Techniques blows the lid off the secrets of mixing and explains in easy and illustrated terms how you can create a professional quality recording with even the most basic equipment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197948 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Good Starting Point To Learn Mixing Music
This is a real good starting point to learn the basic concepts to mixing your music, it's a small pocket guide easy to carry around and the table of contents is laid out efficiently for you to jump to that particular chapter if need be. You can read the entire book in one sit down or you can use as a basic reference to refresh your understanding in certain areas of Mixing.

I have other resources on this topic, but in this field you can't underestimate a book like this, because I've been involved in projects with so called "Mixing Experts" whose mixes sounded poorly, because they couldn't grasp the basic concepts, therefore, rendering a poor acoustical project.

Also found the Glossary Valuable as well, get this book and stick with the basics, as more advance books will be more understandable to you in the future. I Hope This Review Helps You. Good Luck.

Well intended, but dated and out of focus
White is a great writer, no doubt about it, but it seems that the editors pushed a little too far to present a title that fits in the hullabaloo about mixing. The market is hungry for books on mixing and that may be the reason for this book to exist. Almost a third of this very small book is just a glossary, and almost half of it is about recording, not mixing. If we take the other third about automation off, we end up with almost no useful information. But it is Paul White, and everything that he talks about is right, but certainly not focused enough on the matter. To make matters worse, it was written in 2000, making it suffer from old age (eight years is a lot of time in mxing techniques).

I found it very useful.
When my friends decided to make a band as a joke, I decided I'd pick this up. When a few of my friends decided to each learn a musical instrument at the same time, we thought it'd be fun to get together and make some really awful music under the guise of a fake band name. Yes, we're awfully bored an awful lot. After some thought, I thought I'd learn drums and perhaps some mixing on the side. With the help of this affordable little handbook, I was able to not only play some [bad] drums, but [bad] remix it when I was done. What could be better than that! Obviously, with my incredibly low expectations, I found this book to be very good. I guess that probably doesn't help much though, huh.