Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2004
• Run Time: 210 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002IQM6G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,881 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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The Art of Mixing DVD. Get an understanding of how to mix any type of music with this instructional DVD! The #1 best-selling book on mixing comes to life with over three and a half hours of vivid, detailed instruction on one DVD! With Gibson1/4s exclusive 3D visual framework, you

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good effort which must be appreciated but falls short of expectations..., December 22, 2005

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Vicnts4 "Victor" (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production by David Gibson (DVD)

That was a painful watch, boring at best. David Gibson may know his chops but he definitely doesnt know how to teach them effectively. He spends half the time explaining what the video is supposed to teach as opposed to actually teaching it. The video begins with a tune by Thomas Dolby- Blinded me with science...which plays over and over till you are bored to death, and the tune sucks. Then Gibson gives an intro to the video about the subsequent chapters as divided into 3 parts. Then he goes over the details as to how panning, volume and equalisation; and effects are used by engineers all over the world to create GREAT MIXES. Now that is and illusive concept, but he doesnt even try to deliver the basics. How to use eq is supposed to be an indepth subject with much disscussion as with compressing and limiting. But he just repeats the very-very basics over and over till you're done. No discussion or indepth analysis. And the video transitions and layout is so damn cheesey, with boring music interludes and some really funny and boring video sections with various people commenting over the subject. You have a professor, a hip hop band, an alien guru and a very stupid dancer; they all come and go in between the video sections just to give some awkward comments. They are meant to provide entertainment but end up looking as a very low quality production effort, and thats a real shame.
Overall, one could skip this dvd,and instead go for much more substantial and excellent multimedia alternatives like PRODUCTION, MIXING AND MASTERING WITH WAVES by Anthony Egizii, you get the session files with the book, and indepth concepts are explained as to why rather than just how.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Art of Mixing, underline Art, February 18, 2009

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Wade Stuart Willett "Zaph Naph" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production by David Gibson (DVD)

I learned a lot about what is possible, but very little on the nuts and bolts of how to do it. So as long as you understand that this is not for someone trying to learn how to run sound, or how to EQ, or how to tune a system, but rather for someone who wants to take it to the next level.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic from an Innovator, December 7, 2011

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John F. Sase - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production by David Gibson (DVD)

I have read the range of comments posted. David Gibson is an innovator that developed an original way to image sound and music in a mix. In the first section, Gibson explains how he developed the original images on a black and white Mac--a museum piece by today's standards. Though we can always find more up-to-date musical examples, the nature of sound is a constant in our universe and we still use use tonal and harmonic systems of music described by Pythagoras as handed down from more ancient Vedic traditions. Though most of us use Pro-Tools or a similar digital program to record and mix music, we should not forget that the computer plug-ins that we use are modeled after the vintage equipment that Gibson uses. (While we're at it, I would also reccomend Adventures in Modern Recording with Eddie Kramer, Les Paul, others. Gone but not forgotten, if you do not know and understand the contribution made to recording by Les Paul, you shouldn't even be allowed near a multitrack device.) The take-away is that the work of David Gibson and others forms a significant part of our fundamental history of modern recording technology.