Art of Mixing

David Gibson has engineered and produced albums in a wide range of styles of music, including acoustic rock, jazz, rock, new age, heavy metal, rap, hip hop, and electronica. Gibson has been teaching, engineering, and producing groups in major 24-track studios since 1982 and was the founder and owner of California Recording Institute in San Francisco for 10 years. Before that, he taught recording at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California for 5 years. He has been using the concepts and visuals presented in this book in his classes since 1986. He is currently the Chief Administrator of Globe Institute of Recording and Production in San Francisco. Gibson is currently the number one seller of sound healing music, also used in hospitals across the United States, and he is the author of the best-selling book The Complete Guide to Sound Healing. Gibson is the inventor of the patented Virtual Mixer mixing plug-in and a virtual reality healing system where you can place sounds inside a 3D image of the body.

• 1. All Aspects of a Recorded Piece of Music 2. Visual Representations of “Imaging” 3. Guides to a Great Mix (Reasons for Creating One Style of Mix or Another) 4. Functions of Studio Equipment and Visuals of All Parameters 5. Musical Dynamics Created with Studio Equipment 6. Styles of Mixes 7. Magic in Music, Songs, and Mixes 8. 3D Sound Processors and Surround Sound Mixing 9. Mixing Procedures 10. Sound Healing and Psychoacoustics – Sound and Music that Affect People Deeply 11. Concert Pitch and Tuning Systems 12. Brainwave Entrainment and Binaural Beats 13. Tuning to an Intention and You 14. Sound and Music for Healing Issues 15. The Future of Mixing