Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins

Such a great book. For those who are self taught and want to improve their mixing skills.

Read entire book first sitting this is packed with easy to understand explanations of techniques and tips to instantly improve your mix. Chapters on no plugs used (analog) eq, compression, reverb and delay and saturation invaluable for beginners and live sound mixers. I will be using this manual for many years as a reference for mixer settings...awesome manual.

I’ve been doing amateur home recording & mixing for years. This book is really tremendous for me and an easy read due to my familiarity with the subject matter. I really feel that it is helping to take my skills to the next level, and it jumps straight into material that is beneficial for me at my current experience level. But this is a book for me. It is a deeper dive into basic concepts I am already familiar with. It is not a book for beginners. It is a glorified cheat sheet. It frequently uses mixing engineer lingo and shorthand without even attempting to define terms for a reader who is just getting into producing. It will not tell you which DAW to use nor will it teach you the fundamentals of using one. The author assumes that you already have a DAW of choice and that you are already familiar with performing basic tasks within it. So this is NOT a good place to start if you don’t even know what a DAW is. I also do not think that professionals or extremely experienced amateurs would get much out of this book, since, again, it is a deep dive into basic concepts; it does not illuminate any particularly obscure or advanced production techniques. I am harping on this so much because the book bills itself as being for ~everybody~ and I find this to be disingenuous. This is, very specifically, a resource for people who are already mixing music, but aren’t satisfied with their mixes yet. If that’s who you are, let me tell you, that’s who I am too, and this book is perfect! But if that’s not you, you are probably looking for something different.

I'm pretty new to recording/mixing, but from the novice point of view this book is valuable. I wish I'd read it before I starting making recordings. A lot of concepts that were pretty mixed together in my head are much more clear now, and it shows in my mixing. The book makes clear why you do things, and it provides workflow-oriented examples, in the sense that it explains how the author works through the process of mixing. It's agnostic about specific software (DAW and plugins), so you do need to be familiar with what you're using, but that makes the book all the more valuable. I'm pleased with this purchase.

Amazing book! Must have for anyone getting into Mixing music for the first time, or even if you have been doing it for a while.

My Momma told me that if you don't have anything nice to say, then say nothing at all. Then again, she also told me a lot of other stuff that I also ignore. I bought the audiobook. I'm not a violent person at all. Matter if fact, I'm a goofy arse, laugh at everything clown, but this guy's voice? Holy hell. It fills me with rage. To me, sounds like a used car or life insurance salesman or maybe a lounge singer. I've never seen the guy's face, but all I can think while hearing him talk is how much his face craves my fist. The information in the book is solid and I don't want to take any work away from the narrator, but I do find it ironic that the worst thing about this book on audio is...the audio.

Whatever you do don’t subscribe to this guys web site. He floods your inbox everyday all day trying to sell his other stuff. The book is somewhat useful.

I think this is an overall great book with many good points and handy little tricks. It is very simple and Björgvin describes things in an understandable way. I think, though, that he doesn't cover all parts of mixing as in-depth as you would need for giving the full picture. For example, he didn't mention how to think when panning. But the book explains in a great way the most important aspects of mixing, and provides plenty of great advice. As a complementary book to other, more detailed books it is great, by helping you to focus on the right things and giving you a roadmad to follow while mixing.

tres bien ecrit mais en anglais simple a traduire, je trouve tout ce qui me manque, pour bien utiliser mon daw ;logic pro x mais valable pour tout logiciel MAO. pas de bla bla, que de l'utile et plus.

Exclusive & very much helpful for beginners.

Der Autor versteht es, dieses Thema anschaulich, praxisorientiert und locker darzustellen. Und vor allem der letzte Aspekt ist insofern bemerkenswert, als dass andere Autoren hier in endlose Litanei verfallen und ihre Lebensgeschichte publizieren. Die Themen sind nicht neu, aber trotzdem bringt der Autor hier neue Gedanken ins Spiel, deren Umsetzung sich lohnen. Auf ein paar konkrete markenspezifische Kapitel hätte er verzichten können, ebenso wie auf die ständige Erwähnung seiner weiteren, kostenpflichtigen Angebote. Von diesen zwei Aspekten jedoch abgesehen ist dieses Buch vollkommen empfehlenswert.

Se volete avvicinarvi al mixaggio di brani musicali digitali, è un'ottima guida per cominciare. Pratica, semplice, non si perde in troppi giri di parole e vi farà utilizzare solo i plug-in strettamente necessari, quelli fondamentali dei quali non si può fare a meno. Ognuno è ben spiegato. In lingua inglese, dunque è necessario avere padronanza della lingua e dei termini tecnici. Potrà poi servire come trampolino per progredire e fare cose sempre più complesse e migliori.

I read this book in 2 sittings. It's an easy read & Bjorgvin makes it interesting. In the past, I have read too many articles & watches too many youtube vids & just gotten confused. This book really is step-by-step. I wished I'd had this book years ago & I wouldn't have all my muddy mixes I have today. Now, I will go back & remix those songs & re-release. I'm just an amateur who writes & records songs for family & friends. But I find recording & mixing a bit addictive once you get into it. I recommend this read. And I'm about to read it again & write notes this time. Then probably read again. And do the online course version. Thanks for the book - great stuff.