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Product Description
David Gibson’s hugely popular The Art of Mixing, the book that has taught a generation of mixing engineers, comes to life with over 3-1/2 hours of vivid, animated instruction on one feature-packed DVD! With Gibson’s exclusive 3-dimensional framework, you’ll learn the right way to create every style of mix for any style of music. Topics covered include: descriptions and visuals of the functions of each piece of studio equipment involved in mixing, specific concepts b… More >>
The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production by David Gibson
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This DVD was a big disappointment – It was silly, stupid and I learned nothing.
Rating: 1 / 5
I read mixed reviews and was unsure whether to make the purchase. I’m very glad I did. I think it was originally done in 1999, and obviously technology has jumped leaps and bounds since then, but I found this dvd very informative and it did not put me to sleep, as almost every single instructional video has. I have purchased several instructional videos over the years for a variety of instruments such as guitar, drums, keyboards, bass and recording, and I think this has definitely been the most watchable, thus probably most useful. Is some of it a bit corny, sure, but I’m sure there was no million dollar budget to make it, either. I feel they put a lot of work into it to make it a little offbeat and mixed humor with information. The information was very very helpful.
Again, I highly recommend it and am grateful to the producers of the dvd.
Rating: 5 / 5
I find the dvd useless. It does not provide in-depth look at anything related to mixing. It only tells one idea, which is not bad, and then repeats, and repeats, and repeats…
I would kill the people trying to be funny if I could, also… They just make me get severely unmotivated to keep watching the dvd.
Rating: 1 / 5
I learned a lot about what is possible, but very little on the nuts and bolts of how to do it. So as long as you understand that this is not for someone trying to learn how to run sound, or how to EQ, or how to tune a system, but rather for someone who wants to take it to the next level.
Rating: 4 / 5
Failed execution. The DVD is repetitive and the ideas are basic. If you are beginning, this will help you (if you have the patience to sit through 2 1/2 hours of redundancy). Of all I watched, I came out with about 4 (8.5″ x 11″) pages of notes. Not much of worth here. To be fair, I grasped some things – I gained clarity on visualizing sound, a more accuracte perspective on mixing, i.e. sound has only 3 aspects: volume, amplitude and time, and all equipment manipulates these three aspects. He also pointed out some great mixing engineers and musicians (but his list wasn’t diverse) and gave wise quotes, such as his explanation of dynamics. However, he does not go in details as to how to use equipment to accomplish mixing. If that’s what you want, don’t waste your $12. As others have said, the actors were terrible, the music was sometimes amateurish, the graphics extremely annoying, and the script was corny and cheesy. I will say that Gibson has some good mixes on the DVD, though 90% of the songs suck – credit to him there. Overall, I will say this could have been 30 minutes long if he got to the point and stopped wasting our time. I am insulted. VERY INSULTED.
Rating: 2 / 5