Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio

This updated third edition is a practical guide for people working in small home or project studios who want their mixes to sound professional on a modest budget. It covers newer tools and methods, including phase-linearization in digital signal processing, loudness normalization, oversampling, building mixes from stems, frequency shifting and analogue summing. The author walks readers through the whole mixing process one step at a time, explaining equalization, compression and more advanced spectral dynamics, along with the editing, arrangement and monitoring habits professionals rely on. Chapters also cover common beginner errors, where spending can be skipped, and how to get the most from a small budget. Tips draw on the approaches of working engineers and producers, and the book is arranged with summaries, assignments and audio and video examples for classroom use.