The Complete Guide to Remixing: Produce Professional Dance-Floor Hits on Your Home Computer (Berklee Methods) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book truly covers every aspect of remixing, from finding songs to remix, to getting a bar code for your CD, and author Erik Hawkins does an admirable job of touching on every relevant topic in between.

As can be expected the sections of the book that refer to specific computer hardware and software are already not completely current but thankfully the real treasure in this book is found in the sections dealing with production, and this will certainly be valid for many years to come.There's excellent advice given about targeting a style and setting up your sequencer to begin remixing including essential facts about time-stretching and time-correcting remix elements.The chapter on working with lead vocals and micro-editing is particularly eye-opening and useful far beyond the context of remixing.

Perhaps the coolest thing about this guide is the included CD which allows you to hear the production techniques being described.For example, no matter how well a "stutter edit" is described in words, nothing compares to actually hearing it for yourself, and this is as simple as cueing up the CD to the track boldly listed at the beginning of the corresponding section.A number of advanced production devices are presented this way along with a step by step description of how the effect was achieved, these alone are worth the price of the book.Additional production tips are contributed by remixing heavyweights BT, Dave Audé, Thunderpuss, and Deepsky.

The references to chords and chord progressions are overly simplified and contain at least one glaring error but this isn't really the focus of the book and this information can easily be found in other resources.As a guide to remixing and electronic music production in general, this book is a solid hit.

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A comprehensive handbook of the history, technology, craft, and art of remixing. Learn what software and hardware to buy, software tips and shortcuts, and absolutely everything about remixing on a personal computer.

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