Mastering EQ and Compression: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using EQ and Compression Together

Artemis: Interesting, insightful quick read.

United States on Jun 25, 2023

LiouxSea: I have been making music for years and I have been taking classes for sound recording for a year or two, so I know some stuff. Like many I got confused with EQ and compression...sometimes I think I was doing better before I started taking classes. what I like about his books is that he explains the basic stuff, the stuff that everyone skips over thinking everyone already knows what it means so they don't bother explaining in real world words. So a lot of the book gave me those "aha" moments that finally had me connect my knowledge to my brain. I ordered the whole series , i also prefer books that I can touch over digital versions so I got the paperback versions.

United States on May 30, 2023

Secretagentman: Okay, here goes. First and foremost allow me to start with my journey to purchasing this book. About 8 years ago, I chose to venture into this wonderful journey of becoming a music producer. I have learned production techniques from some of the best music producers in hiphop and R&B today. Literally paid them and took classes directly from them. I even earned a degree in music production from a pretty amazing private music college. Some things you just simply do not learn unless you hear or read it in a certain way. I pride myself in my humility in reference to learning anything. I find that it is often in the basics of topics that we get lost and even ignore simple things as being quite trivial. This is an error in judgment that occurs far too often. I say this because there are a lot of comments that sort of wrote off this book at beginner jargon; this is an ineffective way of viewing this publication. IT IS GOOD! Not perfect but good. There are several things that I really think would help a beginner but also things that would help even a seasoned producer; like the mindset that one should follow when looking to achieve a great mix. Trust me when you start using one sound...

United States on Feb 17, 2023

Giovanni Merlino: Sconsigliato, povero di contenuti e poco curato.

Italy on Oct 01, 2021

Luke Smith: Excellent. Explained what tons of YouTube videos fail to on what is normally a dry topic. What are these things and when do you need to do them? Which is what I need from a book like this

United Kingdom on Mar 16, 2021

Holly F.: I bought the whole series of this line and have so far only read 1/2 way through this one. I already could use that I learned in the first 1/2 and have been able to mix sooooooooooooo much better than before. I had a bunch of mud in my mixes before reading the info presented here. Now I can get the mix to be a LOT cleaner. Am I at the level of a world-class engineer yet? No. But they've been at it for years and I just got this book a couple of weeks ago, read 1/2, worked on 2 mixes only (at this point) but have been very happy with how much better I was able to mix those 2 things.

Please also note: I'd worked on the mixes for both of those things prior to getting this book and couldn't get them out of the mud zone. There wasn't any way my ignorantly fiddling around was going to help me get out of the murky zones everything was in. The info here is concise and well laid out. It's easy to understand and follow. There are even exercises that start where I left off. I haven't even done those yet - but I do plan to! Because just from reading 1/2 the book I could already make my mixes better. And I only used the effects that are in the DAW I have. I was able to get pretty good...

United States on Apr 17, 2020

Cliente Amazon: This book. Not only this one, but the 4 or 5 that Nathan have here to sell are Awesome. I have more than 20 years in music production, mixing and mastering and for me these books have been the last step to sound incredible. Tha approach are pretty simple with some presets and basic explanations but there are incredible powerfull and well planned to the point that when you follow the steps your mixes improves in those areas when you are not making very well..In my opinion a really excellent series of books.

Spain on Feb 15, 2020

cam: A+

Canada on Jun 06, 2019

K. Bianchi: Great read! I've self taught myself over the last ten years and just recently bumped into a professional audio engineer who gave me lots of tips and tricks that were all parallel to everything you touch on. One thing you completely nailed, the "automatic volume fader" lol the amount of times you used that name at and around page 30/33 had me both laughing and smiling at the same time. It makes sense, it works, especially for something that everyone seems to lable as "the most important thing, ever". Those who have given this a bad review, must have been expecting a degree in audio engineering for 11 bucks lol. I found this very useful, especially the rule of 300, using a notepad, the front/back method and slingshoting. Thank you N.N.

United States on Jun 20, 2018

Low level electronics guy: Compression and EQ are among the most talked topics among audio engineers. Want to see one talking for hours? Ask him: how have you done that? The odds are EQ and compression will top the list. Every time.

Brazil on Jun 11, 2018