Forget that Peter McIan book. It's garbage. Besides being filled with cookie cutter recipes that may or may not work for your project, is full of all kinds of bad advice. For example, his go-to for every instrument is to boost 100 Hz. If you do that, your mix is going to end up being a muddy mess. I guarantee that's not what was done on the Men at Work album that he produced.

I burned my copy of it.

This is the book you want:

https://www.amazon.com/Mixing-Engineers-Handbook-5th/dp/1946837121

Or this one, if not the whole series:

https://www.halleonard.com/product/333254/hal-leonard-recording-method-book-6-mixing-mastering-2nd-edition

As far as "I can't sing:"



A final piece of advice if you want to get good at anything, you need to give yourself permission to suck. No one starts out great at anything.

Last edited by Byron Dickens; 05/17/23 04:33 PM.
Byron Dickens

BIAB. CbB. Mixbus 32C 8 HP Envy. Intel core i7. 16GB RAM W10. Focusrite Scarlett 18i 20. Various instruments played with varying degrees of proficiency.

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