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Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices
In Mixing with Learning to Make Musical Choices , Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you’re a dance producer in your home studio, a live mixer in a club, or an engineer in a big studio, the mindset is largely the same. The same goes for the questions you run where do you start? How do you deal with a context in which all the different parts affect each other? How do you avoid getting lost in technique? How do you direct your audience’s attention? Why doesn’t your mix sound as good as someone else’s? How do you maintain your objectivity when you hear the same song a hundred times? How do your speakers affect your perception? What’s the difference between one compressor and another? Following a clear structure, this book covers these and many other questions, bringing you closer and closer to answering the most important question of how do you tell a story with sound?
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352 pages, Hardcover
Published March 26, 2018
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August 17, 2020
Didn't read the Kindle version, bought a copy. Glad I did, too - this is one of those slightly more rare audio books that I do intend to re-read in the future.
It's rare that a book about audio engineering, or mixing audio, really feels like absolutely new material. I've read most of the main works on the topic by authors like Senior, Izhaki, Ownsinski. They're great; I definitely learned practical approaches and techniques.
This book felt a little different. It covered covered basics like balance, automation, effects, and so on, but it did so in a way that felt original. I feel like Oltheten is giving you the benefits of many years of HIS unique perspective, not "industry secrets". I hadn't run into his ideas and concepts already on a YouTube video. I give this book high marks, because it did the thing I really care about, which is that, while I read it, I generated many new ideas of my own, as it applied to my work. Ideas about mixing, yes, but also about more acoustic treatment in my mixing space, new ways to use reverbs and compressors, new approaches to creativity and working with fellow musicians.
Highly recommended, and probably a bit of a sleeper. I imagine popularity of this book will slowly increase. There are few truly useful mixing books published; in my opinion, this is one of them.
It's rare that a book about audio engineering, or mixing audio, really feels like absolutely new material. I've read most of the main works on the topic by authors like Senior, Izhaki, Ownsinski. They're great; I definitely learned practical approaches and techniques.
This book felt a little different. It covered covered basics like balance, automation, effects, and so on, but it did so in a way that felt original. I feel like Oltheten is giving you the benefits of many years of HIS unique perspective, not "industry secrets". I hadn't run into his ideas and concepts already on a YouTube video. I give this book high marks, because it did the thing I really care about, which is that, while I read it, I generated many new ideas of my own, as it applied to my work. Ideas about mixing, yes, but also about more acoustic treatment in my mixing space, new ways to use reverbs and compressors, new approaches to creativity and working with fellow musicians.
Highly recommended, and probably a bit of a sleeper. I imagine popularity of this book will slowly increase. There are few truly useful mixing books published; in my opinion, this is one of them.
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