The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition by Bobby Owsinski
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Book Reviews of The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition
Book Review: Mixing Engineer's Handbook
Summary: 4 Stars
Pretty much what the title says!!! A piece of standard equipment in any home studio dreaming of delivering some work of industry quality.Book Review: Just for posterity
Summary: 4 Stars
A historical documentation of how it used to be before everything went virtual.Book Review: Good info...for half of the book.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book has some good info that I will use about the basics of mixing. The author interviewed a wide variety of well-known, professional mix engineers and compiled the responses by topic--therefore it showcases a variety of approaches and points of view. However, the other half of the book contains the interviews in full, therefore half the information contained in this book is almost redundant. I still think I will benefit from it in my library, just don't be disappointed when you find out you really need only half of the pages in this book. I have a general disdain for using filler material in music as well as in books.Book Review: A few extra tips for pros
Summary: 2 Stars
If you are not already a reasonably skilled mixing professional, I seriously doubt you will get much practical use from this book.
This is NOT a HANDBOOK as the title says. This is an ADVANCED commentary for polishing up an already good mix, assuming you have enough experience to make one. It is a series of interviews of various mixing professionals, giving a few hints about individual ways of going about things. A good portion of the book is CHIT CHAT that isn't all that helpful. Notice that the title says "Mixing ENGINEER'S handbook" It is accurate to assume you are an engineer if you're going to benifit from this book. Otherwise it will sit on your shelf collecting dust and make you look cool to your friends for having it there. So make sure you have enough traffic thru your music book library to justify the price tag (if you're paying full price):) I gave it 2 stars for the deceptive title (I don't like deceptive titles), but it might be worth 3 if your girlfriend is really impressed that you asked for it for Christmas.
Book Review: Redundant, Repetitive Regurgitation
Summary: 2 Stars
The second half of the book is basically a repetition of the first half. After reading the first half of the book, you have to re-read through most of what you already read just to acquire maybe an additional 10% of content in the second half. The author could better written the content into a singular, continuous read.
Secondly, while reading the book I could not help but feel that the author was lacking personal knowledge in mixing and was merely regurgitating the information acquired from the interviews.