The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition | Bobby Owsinski

The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition | Bobby Owsinski | Practical and Professional Book to Enhance Recordings

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	The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition Bobby Owsinski Artistpro, 2006 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My new Favorite Book!

Alright, so, after a while of mixing things on my own, I figured that I had a pretty good idea of what mixing entails. Well, I was in for a surprise. I had heard good things about this book, and I thought to myself, "Hmm...might be a cool book to just further my learning." The book arrived and I dove in, hoping to find a few tips and some insight from several acclaimed mixers and producers. Little did I know, I was in the middle of a gold mine.

This book is awesome! It has virtually everything you ever wanted to know about mixing. Tons of thoughts and SPECIFICS on EQs, Compression, balance, panning, and all kinds of great information. Owsinski gives specific ideas and settings for frequency slotting and balance. For example, on page 33 there is a chart that has "magic frequencies", or "sweet spots" in the frequency spectrum for different instruments, i.e, "Horns: Fullness at 120Hz, Piercing at 5kHz" or "Conga: Ring at 200Hz, slap at 5kHz".

MANY times you will get books that have a bunch of mediocre information and their key point is "you just have to play around with it until you find that sweet spot" or "it's all up to you". What's great about this book is that it gives you a STARTING POINT plus is has a TON of thoughts on specific subjects by some (some...try 22!) of the most renowned mixers in the business including Allen Sides, Don Hahn, Bruce Swedien, Elliot Scheiner, John X, and Ed Seay. In the later chapters of the book, he has strictly the interviews of mixers in their entirety. The interviews are mostly about their philosophies and methods on mixing as a WHOLE. The specifics are left embedding into the chapters.

So, if you think you know it all, get this book! If you think you don't know where to start, get this book! It will rock your world and change your entire way of thinking, at least, it did for me! 5 stars!

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Practical and Professional Book to Enhance Recordings

I am a physician and also a very serious semi-professional musician. I have a recording studio at home with Roland V-drums, 7 synthesizers, synthesizer modules, guitars, monitor amps, reference speakers, and about 12 effects boxes. I also have 2 Edirol MIDI patch bays since my studio runs off a Roland MC-50 sequencer which drives everything including my Roland VS-1824 digital recording work station. I also am gearing up for live gigs with a live Yamaha digital mixing board. I play keyboards, guitar, and a little drums and I write music.

This book tied everything together for me. With my newly assembled dream studio, I was a little confused with certain things. This book helped me decide things such as: 1) If using a keyboard's stereo outputs is better than using a mono output into an effects box and then using that stereo out for the final mix. 2) Should I pan keyboard or guitar effects stereo out 9:00 hard left and 9:00 hard right or at 10:00 and 2:00 3) What are the best techniques to produce 3D sound imaging to make a recorded sound emulate a live venue (i.e. chorus effects, slap delay, reverb, pan, dynamic volume and tempo adjustments throughout the song). 4) Helped me decide whether to EQ before or after compression. 5) How to EQ to make a sound stand out vs. how to EQ to blend a sound into the music as a whole. 6) The book also has techniques from reknown expert recording engineers/artists - for example I learned what the best listening volumes are for listening to my recordings to ensure they will sound good at dance clubs vs. in a small car speaker.

Overall, this books ties the entire recording studio process together in addition to giving basic introduction to all the major steps of recording. I reviewed dozens of books on recording studio techniques and this is the best one in my opinion.

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Must have information

This book represents a must have for anybody wanting to find out about the recording industry. It gives easy understandable refrence to all the things you should know when recording.

The bomb diggity

This mixing masterpeice has brought new life to my husband's self recorded album. He had noticed a high pitch whining and after reading a few pages in the book he had adjusted two levels and magnifico new unadulterated music.

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