
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In Mixing with Impact: 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 into: 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 all: how do you tell a story with sound?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Travel Guide for This Book
- 1 The World of Mixing: About the Profession of This Book
- 2 Listening: Everything Is Relative
- 3 Laying the Foundation: Creating a Starting Position
- 4 The Frequency Spectrum: No Light without Darkness
- 5 Dynamics: Without Soft There Is No Loud
- 6 Space: There’s More Room Than You Think
- 7 Time and Phase: It’s All About the Sum of the Parts
- 8 Identity: A Unique Sound
- 9 Effects: Craziness with a Purpose
- 10 Automation: Performing the Mix
- 11 Advanced Techniques: Exploring the Boundaries
- 12 Bus Compression: The Sum of the Parts
- 13 Templates: Working Faster Means a Better Mix
- 14 Preparing for Mastering: A Good Relationship
- 15 Mindset: A Competition Against Yourself
- 16 The Outside World: Sound Engineering Means Working for Others
- 17 Tools: Preconditions for Mixing Reliably
- Recommended Literature
- Index