Unlock the Secrets of Mixing for Small Studios with Sound On Sound

Francesc: Está muy bien escrito y explicado. Viene con imágenes y muchos ejemplos, marcas, modelos, técnicas, opiniones… de todo. Marca un antes y un después. Buena inversión

Spain on Jan 18, 2024

Nikhil Bhatt: Not for beginners,
Beginners u can go for audio engineering 101 by Timothy A. Dittmar

India on Mar 16, 2021

Erick Cisneros: Excelente libro, son de esos libros que no puedes solo leer una vez y va siempre al grano con los problemas que los estudios en casa tienen en cuanto a problemas derivados del incorrecto (o hasta nulo) tratamiento acustico de un cuarto común y corriente, recomendaciones para obtener el mejor sonido en cuanto a monitores, audífonos de referencia y sobre todo el detalle de cada pasó en el proceso del mixing en un contexto exclusivamente de home studios.

Un libro que me ha abierto la mente en cosas que desconocía sobre el proceso del mixing y sobre todo que está respaldado por comentarios de grandes personalidades de la producción en audio.

Mexico on Nov 21, 2019

salvatore carbone: Penso che sia uno dei migliori libri mai scritti sul tema! Ma non solo. Questo libro ti da una miriade di informazioni che ti permettono di perfezionare le tue abilità nel missaggio. Tratta veramente tantissimi aspetti e ti da le informazioni per poterti costruire uno studio che suoni abbastanza bene da poter missare un brano che poi suoni bene in qualsiasi ascolto e circostanza. Il tipo ne sa veramente tanto!!! Lo consiglio veramente tanto a chi è interessato alle produzioni sonore.

Italy on Aug 01, 2019

Ian Stark: As a mature 'student' wanting to cement my existing knowledge of the mixing process, as well as explore the yawning gaps in that knowledge and develop a consistent workflow, I found this book to be almost perfect.

I'll get the few (minor) niggles out the way first - and these are repeated in my review of Mike Senior's other book, Recording Secrets for the Small Studio. You should read that book as well - in fact, read it first, as it is focused on the capture of material. Get that right and you're in a much better place when it comes to the mix.

Firstly, in the niggle list - the speech bubble call outs are not useful (to me, anyway) as they are no more than verbatim lifts from the text. Fine if the text consists of sprawling passages with no breaks, but this book is usefully broken down into short, titled sections, so the need for those additional highlight bubbles is minimal and they become a distraction. More useful might have been something like another short comment from a respected producer/engineer/artist on the subject being discussed.

Secondly, the larger secondary text boxes are often annoyingly placed, such that they unnecessarily...

United Kingdom on Apr 26, 2018

Charley Neill: I have been using reason 6.5 recently, and have recorded several orginal works mainly for purposes of providing demos to musicians that I intend to perform the music with live. I never thought that I would produce music to hand to a listener for simple enjoyment of a good recording.

Recently I decided that I wanted to go to a pofessional studio to record something to distribute. I wanted to be able to talk with the engineer in his own language, so i decided to educate myself by reading up on the matter. After reading three different books, I stumbled across this one. I noticed that it had very high ratings from significantly more readers than the previous books. This book was an automated Amazon suggestion. I rented it. Started reading, and it sucked me in.

The only downfall to reading this book is that I'm a law student, and i really needed to be reading my law books. I let this book take me away!

Any way... Cut to the chase right?!
Each chapter gives an assignment, and I decided to actually do these assignments reading the book in order. This is very imoortant if you want to really gain from this book! I chose one of my songs, erased...

United States on May 04, 2013

C. L. Messina: The first clue this book is valuable is the star ratings versus the used book price. Why do you think used copies sell for nearly as much as new? And what's the percentage of 5 stars? Those two indicators led to my purchase. Admittedly, I thought the price was steep but after reading I think it's a steal.

Senior's book has a very logical flow and seems to consider absolutely every challenge mixers face. You will get the most from this book starting at the beginning and working your way through it, cover to cover. It's a very concise book and will require time to read because it never let's up giving you valuable information.

I am a little at a loss for words in trying to explain how great the book is. All I can say is I've been writing music for over 15 years and have gotten better mixes through a lot of painful, time-consuming trial and error. I know what doesn't work because of MANY failures. But then I start reading this book and see Senior knows those same failures and offers the same logical solutions that worked for me. Even simple things like color coding tracks to quickly get around your mix can shoot the inexperienced in the foot, but here...

United States on Feb 27, 2013