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Summary: Not Worth The Money
Review: ...What I will say is that the advice given in this book is, in no way, worth the price if the book. The information is far too basic and is presented over and over again until the reader is completely turned-off by the whole concept. In short, we are asked to visually represent a mix in terms of volume, panning, and frequency. This is done with a basic X-Y-Z axis and a series of colored spheres representing the different instruments. That covers about 5 pages. Throughout the rest of the book , we are hit with what seems like hundreeds of these same graphs, each representing examples of different mixes. The problem is, they do not teach us anything other than "every mix is different". To me, that's just not enough.In short, the basic theory is good, but it is more geared toward a magazine article than to an entire book. By making the concept into a book, we are presented with a lot of over-priced fluff which, in reality, detracts from the fact that the basic theory makes sense...
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Summary: I read it at the store, as advised. Worth the free visit.
Review: As suggested in another review, read it at the store for 3 minutes and you've got the idea. Very overpriced for what you get. Could use a lot more information about the knobs to turn and the settings to use on instrumentation to actually get to the pictures that he envisions.
OK, the graphics are cool and the idea of visualizing a mix is nice but you could squash the images into 1 chapter and then give more 'meat' for the mixing process. I picked it up ready to buy it and set it down wanting much more.
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: David Gibson takes through a well thought out process of engineering, including many wonderful tips and visual concepts. The visual concepts are clear and unique...I am heading over to pick up the videos on this title. I have over 300 music books, many on recording; this is my reference for reminding me of how to mix. It is a tad spiritual in its concepts as well....
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Summary: A fresh look on a highly complex world
Review: For the pros and home-musicians alike, this book gives a surprisingly clear view of virtually all aspects of recording and mixing in the studio. For me, having read the book, I suddenly understood why my mixes were only so-so and certainly not good enough for record companies (especially the section on compression is great!). This book provides highly valuable insight, which means that you still have to practice a lot to really improve your skills, but that practicing becomes much more pleasurable having read this book.
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Summary: Look at all the pretty baloons
Review: Gibson offers a simplistic view of the mixing process - imagining colored spheroids in a 3D space as a way to visualize a stereo mix. There are a couple of good points, but they're buried and not obvious. As a musician and home-studio engineer I found this book mostly useless. It might help someone just starting out, but if you know what a mixer, compressor and effects unit are, read Bobby Owinsky's "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook" instead.
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Summary: Look at all the pretty baloons
Review: Gibson offers a simplistic view of the mixing process - imagining colored spheroids in a 3D space as a way to visualize a stereo mix. There are a couple of good points, but they're buried and not obvious. As a musician and home-studio engineer I found this book mostly useless. It might help someone just starting out, but if you know what a mixer, compressor and effects unit are, read Bobby Owinsky's "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook" instead.
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Summary: nearly useless
Review: gibson's book is kind of a one trick pony. you instantly get what he's going for and, to be fair, it's a neat idea to visualize music this way. but, if you're serious at all about mixing or even listening to music, you immediately realize that you knew all of this already. my advice would be read this in a bookstore for about 3 minutes and then get Bobby Owsinski's book Mixing Engineers Handbook for some truly useful info.
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Summary: Waching tv with your ears!
Review: Is a good book for beginner to mixing, it has shown you how to get things sounding like in a professional mix! The examples for styles are visual (very refreshing look) and is very usefull because when you planifica a mixdown you think inside the head or write draws on a paper with any instrument on your recording. That is what wizard Gibson made. The book give you a solid foundation to create your own style of mixdown, becuase is an art. If you want to about mixing fast, then this is the book for you!...
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Summary: Answers
Review: This answered many questions for me about mixing. How to eq guitars, drums, vocals, bass; how to use compression, etc. The visualizations are cool, and a quick way to identify with the way you might want to mix different song. The pictures show panning positions, volumes, etc. It is genious because the only other way to explain it is to sit right here by me and listen through my monitors at something I've recorded. It's still up to you to train your ear and try some things. If you don't have monitors, none of this will make sense to you, but is still a good reference with specific examples and settings. This is really everything you need if you have been recording and want to get better mixes than you have been. Whether you use Cakewalk, or multitrack and rack/stomp box effects you can learn how to do it the right way from this. It's saved me a bunch of money because I found that I have everything I need and don't need maximizers and other expensive equipment and plug ins that do simple things you could do if you knew how to use what you have.
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Summary: Answers
Review: This answered many questions for me about mixing. How to eq guitars, drums, vocals, bass; how to use compression, etc. The visualizations are cool, and a quick way to identify with the way you might want to mix different song. The pictures show panning positions, volumes, etc. It is genious because the only other way to explain it is to sit right here by me and listen through my monitors at something I've recorded. It's still up to you to train your ear and try some things. If you don't have monitors, none of this will make sense to you, but is still a good reference with specific examples and settings. This is really everything you need if you have been recording and want to get better mixes than you have been. Whether you use Cakewalk, or multitrack and rack/stomp box effects you can learn how to do it the right way from this. It's saved me a bunch of money because I found that I have everything I need and don't need maximizers and other expensive equipment and plug ins that do simple things you could do if you knew how to use what you have.
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