Product Description

If you want your mixes to sound great, even next to your favorite commercial release of your favorite artist, you need this book and CD! You'll learn mixing techniques and hear audio examples designed to help you create a professional-sounding mix. Avoid the pitfalls of mixing. Build a mix from the ground up, shaping each ingredient with the big picture in mind. Learn how to set up a mix that has power and impact. Once you start following these guidelines and principles you'll never turn back, and your music will sound better than ever!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #863394 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

About the Author
Bill Gibson, President of Northwest Music and Recording, has spent the last 25 years writing, recording, producing and teaching music and has become well-known for his production, performance and teaching skills. As an instructor at Green River College in Auburn, WA, holding various degrees in composition, arranging, education and recording, he developed a practical and accessible teaching style which provided the basis for what was to come--15 books, a DVD, and a VHS video for MixBooks/ArtistPro along with a dozen online courses for members of ArtistPro.com. Bill's writings are acclaimed for their straightforward and understandable explanations of recording concepts and applications.

Customer Reviews

Informative for raw beginner only
I read this "book" and listened to the CD with sample mixes in about a half hour. It seems fine as a primer for a total beginner (which I am) but leaves you feeling more like you just read a magazine article than a book. It gives you a few ideas but just doesn't develop them to any depth. I haven't read the author's other works, but maybe if you slapped them all together you'd get a decent book out of it.

A few good ideas for beginners, but overpriced
This book is moderately helpful, if a little thin. This is not a 40-pound tome with facts and charts and cross-references that you will keep next to your mixing board; but it will get you thinking in the right direction and actually has some pretty important stuff to say about EQ, delays, limiting, and the sequence for setting up your mixes. The included CD is useful for demonstrating the effect of the techniques he is talking about, and in fact the CD is the only advantage this book has over others of its ilk. Personally, I recommend The Mixing Engineer's Handbook (Mix Pro Audio Series) by Bobby Owsinski, which is everything this book isn't.

My main beef is the price of this book in relation to the content. It is a thin book already, but it is also written in large (16 point?) type and has a LOT of white space, so it's really more of a pamphlet that was expanded into a "booklet," and it doesn't contain a ton of details about what to do with each instrument, vocals, etc. (like the Owsinsky book I recommended above). In reality, if I boiled down the useful bits from this book I could probably have told you all of them in the space of this review. So if you find it for under $5, I would say grab it. Otherwise, I would go see if I could get a copy from the local library or else just go find much of the same information online.

Is the truth out there?
Once again another book which is light on true solutions.
You could find all the info within by sufting the net.
What's needed is for someone to write a book with actual facts;
ie.To match MARIAH CAREY "NEED A FRIEND",do the following;
Lead vocal 200hz q=2 g=-4db
1000hz q=2 g=-5db
5000hz q=1.4 g=3db
10000hz hi shelf g=+4db
bass etc,etc,etc
all instruments etc,etc,etc
(there should be a list of quite a few songs)
If or when someone decides to tell, the whole true and nothing but the truth,that person will sell books by the bucket load.
however this is not the book