{"id":5644,"date":"2011-03-08T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2011-03-08T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:51:07","slug":"zen-and-the-art-of-mixing-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/03\/08\/zen-and-the-art-of-mixing-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the Art of Mixing (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-5644\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zen-Art-Mixing-Technical-Reference\/dp\/1423491505%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1423491505\">Zen and the Art of Mixing (Technical Reference)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB001QV42EW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mixerman\/e\/B001QV42EW\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Mixerman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 350 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Hal Leonard (October 15, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1423491505<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1423491507<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into making music you need to read this book.<\/p>\n<p>Mixerman knows what he&#8217;s writing about &#8211; he claims extensive mixing experience and it shows. His\/her writing style is friendly and accessible. I love that the book starts with some definitions and assumptions &#8211; those lay the groundwork for what good mixing means.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the best chapter is on <em>Mechanics<\/em>; I was reminded of a number of things I should have been doing as I mixed my work but wasn&#8217;t. With DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) you can have access to lots of &#8216;equipment&#8217; &#8211; in my old home studio I had one compressor, for example&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recommend this book highly enough, once I started it I had to keep picking it up and reading it until I was done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-5644\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 5644);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-5644\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-5644\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Zen and the Art of Mixing (Technical Reference) Author: Mixerman Paperback: 350 pages Publisher: Hal Leonard (October 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1423491505 ISBN-13: 978-1423491507 If you&#8217;re into making music you need to read this book. Mixerman knows what he&#8217;s writing about &#8211; he claims extensive mixing experience and it shows. His\/her writing style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1t2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}