Oh no, not another newbie question.....

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yup, sorry guy's but I am a noob. Would someone take a quick sec out of their schedule to answer what I hope is a quick and easy question.

I am an acoustic artist. Guitar and harp. Little to no percussion, bass etc....

I am just looking to get a good mix off of my Boss BR -600 (small and insignificant I know, but I like it)

Anyway. Is there a book, course or website out there that can start me off on the REAL BASICS of mixing and mastering. I don't know shit......

thanks all.
 
mjk6string said:
yup, sorry guy's but I am a noob. Would someone take a quick sec out of their schedule to answer what I hope is a quick and easy question.

I am an acoustic artist. Guitar and harp. Little to no percussion, bass etc....

I am just looking to get a good mix off of my Boss BR -600 (small and insignificant I know, but I like it)

Anyway. Is there a book, course or website out there that can start me off on the REAL BASICS of mixing and mastering. I don't know shit......

thanks all.
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mjk,

There are many good books available. I suggest you get to Amazon.com and do a search on "home recording", and print out the list that comes back on your screen.

Then, because everybody has different tastes in reading style and preferences, take that printout up to your local Border's or Barnes & Noble, and look in the "Music" section for the titles. Sit down in the coffee shop, have yourself a drink and sample the books you pulled to see which one works best for you.

HTH,

G.
 
Thanks for your reply.

I appreciate it. Looking at all of the threads on this site has just re-inforced how little I know about this. From the sounds of it, this is going to be a long journey. Even some of the peeps who know what they are talking about (at least well beyond my knowledge) are still stuck for answers.

Truely, recording, mixing and mastering are far more an art form than a science. I have a new found admiration and respect for those of you who can do this and do it well.

As always, thanks for sharing.

SouthSIDE Glen said:
mjk,

There are many good books available. I suggest you get to Amazon.com and do a search on "home recording", and print out the list that comes back on your screen.

Then, because everybody has different tastes in reading style and preferences, take that printout up to your local Border's or Barnes & Noble, and look in the "Music" section for the titles. Sit down in the coffee shop, have yourself a drink and sample the books you pulled to see which one works best for you.

HTH,

G.
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mjk6string said:
Truely, recording, mixing and mastering are far more an art form than a science. I have a new found admiration and respect for those of you who can do this and do it well.

As always, thanks for sharing.
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It's a pleasure :). Sorry you had to see that mess in the other forum.

Definitely it is an art form, but don't sell the science short, either. Audio enginering is really one of the unltimate combinations of both art and science. It's kind of like architecture; yes it's definitely an artform, but without the mastery of materials science and structural engineering underpinning it, whatever you build will just fall down. ;).

G.
 
I have collected a few audio books in my day.

This is a must get book for mixing IMO.
"The Mixing Engineer's Handbook", by Bobby Owsinski

The next best book I have is not about mixing:
"Mastering Audio - the art and the science" by Bob Katz
and excellent book.

"Modern Recording Techniques" by David Miles Huber

"The Dance Music Manual" by Rick Snoman - this one has alot of practical info about arranging, mixing and and alittle mastering for mostly urban music.

"Production mixing mastering with waves" - This is an interesting book it goes through a variety of tutorials of mixing different style of music like Dance, R&B, Country/Rock,Rock/Punk, Urban(RAP/hip-hop) with waves plugin of course. Comes with like 5 CD/DVDS with all the demo arrangements and a demo set of wave plugins.

The book is very expensive and I don't recommended unless you have waves plugins already.

I have other books, but they are completely of topic.
 
Thanks for your reply.

jmarques said:
I have collected a few audio books in my day.

This is a must get book for mixing IMO.
"The Mixing Engineer's Handbook", by Bobby Owsinski
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll be sure to look this one up.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
mjk,

There are many good books available. I suggest you get to Amazon.com and do a search on "home recording", and print out the list that comes back on your screen.

Then, because everybody has different tastes in reading style and preferences, take that printout up to your local Border's or Barnes & Noble, and look in the "Music" section for the titles. Sit down in the coffee shop, have yourself a drink and sample the books you pulled to see which one works best for you.

HTH,

G.
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:eek::eek:

You're pushing a product! Granted, its not yours, but its a product :eek:
 
cusebassman said:
:eek::eek:

You're pushing a product! Granted, its not yours, but its a product :eek:
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Which one? Amazon, Border's, Barnes & Noble, the coffee shops, the coffee industry or the dozen or so books that he'd have listed? Or maybe I'm trying to sell gasoline by suggesting he drive to a book store? :D

Ah, cusebassman, let's let that debacle go.

G.
 
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