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The Art Of Mixing.
Posted on Feb 17, 2008 09:42 pm
Dematrix
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Anyone got the book, The Art Of Mixing.
By David Gibson?
I strongly recommend it.
its even easy for a beginner to read and touches on mixing in ways different from the norm.
Its also shows a mass range of mixes as "visuals". showing volumes, pans, placements, effects etc. all in the one 3D picture, its prety cool.
If someone will clue me up on how to put a picture in my next post i will give y'all a demo.
You'll love it.
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Feb 18, 2008 08:33 am the images has to be hosted somewhere
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Feb 18, 2008 07:24 pm nope. maybe this time.
Feb 18, 2008 07:41 pm you can see the speakers in the top corners.
the size and of each instrument object(circle or oval) is how fat the sound is.
it transperancy or lack of, is its place in the mix volume wise,
the situated height is eq, ie; the higher it is sitting the more tops it has on it. Bass being the lower level.
That transparent pink oblong box that surrounds most of the mix, is reverb and because of where it is situated says it has mainly mid and top end equing.
I've only just started reading this book so im still getting the jist of it, but geez it is spun out.
They actually sell a virtual image system where you wear the mask to see everything then u move whatever u want around in the mix with a virtual glove!
you basicly operate the whole program, if u want by virtual reality.
Not that expensive either.
Not that i would definatley get one at this stage but man, would love a demo.
The book will be enough at this stage i think..lol.
Obviosly there is much more to it.
im only 1/4 way thru.
Feb 19, 2008 11:20 am That's funny, I have thought about how cool a visual mixing setup would be. Having a 3d space to drag things around in and stretch out while the program processed the appropriate reverb\widening etc...
Very neato indeed. I will have to check out that book... once I'm not so poor that I can't even afford guitar picks :) (gotta have them diapers)
Feb 26, 2008 06:04 pm I read that book - it rocks! It is great the way the author make you visualize your mix a 3d - using eq, reverb and panning. Good material here for sure!
Steve
Feb 26, 2008 06:17 pm Wow, you are right, an excellent visual that once explained perfectly illustrates the relationships between every elemnt.
Thanks for sharing that pic!!
Feb 26, 2008 06:23 pm yeah that was one of the first mixing books i bought; its good. the art of mastering i think is another title in that series, isn't it?
Feb 26, 2008 11:51 pm Another one I have recently read is "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook" - a great book in my opinion.
Steve
Feb 27, 2008 08:36 am for me it kinda puts alot of stuff in perspective and validates and squashes past thoughts and ideas on stuff.
still reading it at this point, dont have alot of time to do read though atm.
I like the parts on placement of things in the mix and also basing placements, volumes and eq's according to instruments.
which kinda sounds like the obvious thing you should be doing anyway, but it just explains stuff in a way that hits home.
Mar 05, 2008 11:11 am I'd love to see a DAW with a GUI that allowed you to mix like that. Drag and drop, and resize. Right click to move in a 3D space, and then a slider for "transparency" (Careful, Walters!).
Just thinking out loud.
Mar 05, 2008 03:02 pm Tallchap, I think there might be. There is a local, kinda small time music industry school here in SF that gave me their brochure a couple years ago. And it had several images like the one above in this thread, and stated that you learn to mix using that environment. I could be wrong, but that's what I understood at the time. I remember thinking... what a dumb idea to teach someone that, cuz if you ever go to a normal daw environment, you'll have no clue what to do...
not saying it wouldn't be cool, but you'd have to learn the fundamentals, of what makes a sound, sound like it does. Otherwise once you graduate from the class and go into a real world studio, you'd be lost.
Mar 05, 2008 03:13 pm I hear what you're saying. I know there's no substitute for a good pair of ears. It would just be cool if there were a tool that could get you mixing in that kind of environment. It might be fun.
How many of you can look at a spectrum analyzer and have a pretty good idea which instrument is causing the spike? Most of you, probably. This 3d thing would just be a cool extension of that skill.
Hear me, oh free VST developers....
Mar 05, 2008 03:19 pm I remember awhile back seeing an illustration done by Sir Paul that was used to communicate what he wanted to hear as his mix... back in a bit... gotta try and find that illustration. It was similar to the image above.
EDIT: Man, I can't find the illustration anywhere. It was on the inside cover of one of his CD's and I can't remember the title so I've been looking for a needle in a haystack. Maybe one of you guys remember.
Mar 05, 2008 11:50 pm Yeah, it was also on the picture sleeve of one of his vinyl 45 singles, I have it somewhere too. It was just a map of the mix, not as sophisticated as the Art Of Mixing illustration but similar.
Somewhere around his Broad Street/Spies Like Us period me thinks...
Mar 07, 2008 06:41 am the guy that wrote that book has released a "virtual reality" version like you mention tall chap, you get googles and a "virtual glove" and you can move and place and stretch whatever you want anywhere!! spun out s**t eh?
Mar 07, 2008 11:30 am Yeah, I'm guessing that's not cheap, but fundamentally probably not hard to create. Just adding visual cues to things you normally do with sliders and knobs.
Mar 07, 2008 07:34 pm Just for your information there is a DVD version of that book available. I picked it up in a used bin at a local music store. It's available on amazon,ebay etc. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but it seems that the book gets better reviews than the DVD.
Mar 11, 2008 02:39 am I've seen that DVD it's like an 80's old Mtv video, with lots of crappy visual FX and a lot of LSD, i dont recomend the video.
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