Mixing Music

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer has been involved in professional audio for over two decades. Throughout his career, Russ has maintained a part time higher education role teaching and researching all things audio (www.hepworthhodgson.com). Russ is a former board member of the Music Producer’s Guild and helped form their Mastering Group. Russ currently lectures part time for York St John University and has taught extensively in higher education at institutions including Leeds College of Music, London College of Music and Rose Bruford College and has contributed sessions at Barnsley College. He has written for MusicTech Magazine, Pro Sound News Europe and Sound On Sound plus has written many titles for Focal Press/Routledge.Dr. Jay Hodgson is Associate Professor Music at Western University, where he primarily teaches courses on songwriting and project paradigm record production. He is also one of two mastering engineers at MOTTOsound — a boutique audio services house situated in England, and now Canada. In the last few years, Dr. Hodgson has worked on records nominated for Juno Awards, which topped Beatport’s global techno and house charts, and he has contributed music for films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, and which screened at the United Nations General Assembly. He was awarded a Governor General’s academic medal in 2006, primarily in recognition of his research on audio recording; and his second book, Understanding Records (2010), was recently acquired by the Reading Room & Library of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• Series IntroductionDedicationAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Exploring of the Mix: Historical milestones and expanded perspectives- Martyn PhillipsChapter 2: How to Listen, What to Hear- William MoylanChapter 3: Proxemic Interaction in Popular Music Recordings- Ruth DockwrayChapter 4: Top Down Mixing - A 12-Step Mixing Programme- Phil HardingChapter 5: Mixing in the Box- Justin PatersonChapter 6: Audio Editing In/And Mixing- Alastair Sims and Jay HodgsonChapter 7: Pre-Production In Mixing: Mixing in Pre-Production- Dylan LauzonChapter 8: Between Speakers: Discussions on Mixing- Dean NelsonChapter 9: Mixing for Markets- Alex KrotzChapter 10: Mixing In/And Modern Electronic Music Production- Andrew Devine and Jay HodgsonChapter 11: Groove and the Grid: Mixing Contemporary Hip Hop- Matt ShelvockChapter 12: The Mix is. The Mix is Not- Robert Wilsmore and Christopher JohnsonChapter 13: Mixing metaphors: aesthetics, mediation and the rhetoric of sound mixing- Mark MarringtonChapter 14: Mix as Auditory Response- Jay HodgsonChapter 15: An Intelligent Systems Approach to Mixing Multitrack Audio- Josh Reiss Chapter 16: How Can Academic Practice Inform Mix-Craft?- Gary BromhamChapter 17: The dreaded mix sign-off: handing over to mastering- Rob ToulsonChapter 18: Conclusion: Mixing as part-history, part-present and part-future- Russ Hepworth-SawyerIndex