ABSTRACT

Your mix can make or break a record, and mixing is an essential catalyst for a record deal. Professional engineers with exceptional mixing skills can earn vast amounts of money and find that they are in demand by the biggest acts.

To develop such skills, you need to master both the art and science of mixing. The new edition of this bestselling book offers all you need to know and put into practice in order to improve your mixes. Covering the entire process --from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques -- and offering a multitude of audio samples, tips and tricks, this book has it all.

Roey Izhaki teaches you the importance of a mixing vision, how to craft and evaluate your mix and then take it a step further. He describes the theory and the tools used and how these are put into practice while creating mixes.

Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams and audio samples, Mixing Audio is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing.

New to this edition:
* Multitracks provided to help practice mixing
* Fully updated with current plug-in and software version and information 
* Companion website with a multitude of new samples including more macro-mixing samples 
* A new sample mix: Rock n' Roll

part |2 pages

Part I Concepts and Practices

chapter 1|8 pages

Music and mixing

chapter 2|8 pages

Some axioms and other gems

chapter 3|11 pages

Learning to mix

chapter 4|16 pages

The process of mixing

chapter 5|8 pages

Related issues

chapter 6|17 pages

Mixing domains and objectives

part |2 pages

Part II Tools

chapter 7|20 pages

Monitoring

chapter 8|6 pages

Meters

chapter 9|40 pages

Mixing consoles

chapter 10|22 pages

Software mixers

chapter 11|13 pages

Phase

chapter 12|7 pages

Faders

chapter 13|21 pages

Panning

chapter 14|56 pages

Equalizers

chapter 15|8 pages

Introduction to dynamic range processors

chapter 16|65 pages

Compressors

chapter 17|3 pages

Limiters

chapter 18|27 pages

Gates 335

chapter 19|9 pages

Expanders 362

chapter 20|6 pages

Duckers

chapter 21|17 pages

Delays

chapter 22|8 pages

Other modulation tools

chapter 23|46 pages

Reverbs

chapter 24|9 pages

Distortion

chapter 25|5 pages

Drum triggering

chapter 26|9 pages

Other tools

chapter 27|9 pages

Automation

part |2 pages

Part III Simple Mixes

chapter 28|7 pages

Show Me (Rock n’ Roll)

chapter 30|14 pages

Donna Pomini (Techno)

chapter 31|14 pages

The Hustle (DnB)

chapter 32|14 pages

Hero (Rock)