The Music Mixing Workbook: Exercises To Help You Learn How To Mix On Any DAW

If youre new to mixing and arent sure what to do or your mixes arent anywhere near where youd like them to be then The Music Mixing Workbook is exactly what you need. Written by Bobby Owsinski author of the award winning and highly acclaimed Mixing Engineers Handbook (the standard reference book for mixing in schools around the world) The Music Mixing Workbook features hands-on exercises that teach you all the things that make a mix sound great as well as all the things to avoid along the way. Designed to meet the needs of anyone relatively new to or confused about the once mysterious process of mixing multiple music elements together the book features 175 different exercises covering every operation needed to complete a modern professional-sounding mix complete with tips and tricks that come directly from the A-list pro mixers.The easy-to-follow exercises can be used with any DAW application or hardware console and on any genre of music.Although the reader can easily use the Workbook with any current mixes they may be working on most of the exercises are built around professionally recorded tracks featuring a wide variety of mix elements that are available for free download.Among the many topics covered in the book include: DAW vs. console channel signal flowBasic monitoring setup to optimize your playback environmentBalancing mix elements using a never-miss techniquePanning techniques for various mix elementsMultiple EQ strategies for powerful and distinct tracksCompression gates and saturators and how to use themReverb delay and modulation effects and how to layer them like the prosMaster mix techniques and much moreThe Workbook is meant to be used in conjunction with Owsinskis popular Mixing Engineers Handbook to provide the practical training behind the many concepts involved with mixing.