About the book
The craft of mixing music, once treated as an art that could not be taught, is broken down by Bobby Owsinski into clear, learnable steps for musicians, audio engineers and producers. The handbook walks through the six elements of a mix, from getting the balance right to building interest, and explains equalization along with the so-called magic frequencies. It also covers skills a modern mixer is expected to have: cleaning up tracks, adjusting timing, pitch correction, replacing sounds and automation. Further sections deal with adding effects, layering sounds and working out delay times. Interviews with successful engineers, producers and mixers set out their own approaches, and the text has become a standard reference in college recording programs.
Musician and filmmaker Andi Dumitrescu said it and The Recording Engineer Handbook helped him record music at the level he had hoped for. His frustration that Romania had no sound engineers on par with those in the West is what drove him to learn recording techniques.
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Andi Dumitrescu (Musician, Film Maker)
The Recording Engineer Handbook and The Mixing Engineer Handbook. These are the books that helped me record music at the level I hoped for. For years I lived frustrated that Romania doesn’t have even one sound engineer that could rise to the level of Western ones and this frustration pushed me to learn recording techniques which are, in my opinion, the most important steps in producing an album. Even more important than mixing or mastering.
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