The book is interspersed with humor, which helps to mellow out the otherwise heady engineering lingo. Bill Cheney and Jim Romney are the men responsible for keeping the amazing legacy of Spectra Sonics, a legendary, if criminally unheralded, pro-audio company alive. User-friendly explanations introduce technical concepts on a strictly need-to-know basis, while chapter summaries, assignments, and extensive on-line resources are perfect for school and college use.

Author Mike Senior is well equipped with his experience as engineer, producer and journalist for Sound-on-Sound magazine to guide any reader, with an intermediate to advanced understanding of the studio recording and mixing process, through four main sections. When Lynn Fuston, publisher and coordinator of the 3D Audio comparison series, walked up to the Tape Op booth at the New York AES, I immediately started railing on him. As you become successful enough to justify more expensive equipment, Mixing Secrets will be there to help you make the most out of your time and effort.

Always seeking new challenges, though, he eventually left the magazine to set up his own training and consultancy business, while also freelancing as an engineer and SOS author. About The Author: Mike Senior is a professional engineer who has worked with Wet Wet Wet, The Charlatans, Reef, Therapy, and Nigel Kennedy.

For example, when I get a book like this, I almost always go straight to the chapters on EQ and compression, since those are arguably THE most important things, and the things that will trip most people up. Senior has tons of practical knowledge and deep insight on how to approach and fix common small recording studio mixes. The title is something of a misnomer because the advice and guidance contained are relevant to everyone involved in music engineering and production, at all levels and regardless of the size of the studio or its facilities. If you’re brand new to the mixing side of things, then indeed this whole book could contain hundreds of secrets. I recommend this book all the time to audio professionals who are looking for a good resource for their students, and I recommend it to any hearty bootstrapping project studio operator who wants to make the best use of his time and money while laying a strong foundation for his future development.

Where an advanced technique is not included the fundamental knowledge to understand it has nonetheless been provided.