Product Details

• Directors: Kagi Media
• Writers: Screenplay Copyright Kagi Media
• Producers: Kagi Media
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Kagi Media
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BBDZAA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,861 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Mix It Like A Record (MiLaR) has become the platinum standard DAW Mixing Course- across the board. If you want to learn to mix "in the box" or to sharpen your mixing skills on any digital system, be sure that MiLaR is unanimously praised as- "an amazing audio/visual learning tool"....

Features:
* Three hours of video-based mixing instruction
* 1.7 GB of 40 Pro Tools LE and TDM sessions on ROM layer
* Effects session templates
* Custom plug-in presets

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted My Money, November 11, 2007

By	John R. Mcelroy - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Whoa! It's been a long time since I was this dissatisfied with a product! Most of the video is just Charles Dye walking around in different scenic spots spilling pseudo-philosophical garbage at you. I mean, are you really paying this kind of cash to hear a guy tell you to "connect with the emotions in the music" or whatever? I mean, sure, you should connect emotionally with the music, but do I really need to pay a guy to tell me that?

I can't believe how much of the DVD is just this dude talking at me about general ideas like emotion and "freshness". I already understood that doing something fresh means doing something that hasn't been done before. I didn't need to drop this kind of money for Charles Dye to tell me that.

There are some actual concrete mixing tips in here, but if you collected them all together you'd have about a 20 minute DVD. The rest is garbage.

If you get it and like it, that's great. I'm happy that you found something you like. My advice, though, is to buy another product.

Try Multiplatinum Protools or something.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DAYTON SAYS: DO NOT BUY THIS DVD ... UNLESS, June 1, 2009

By	Craig William Dayton - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like the other reviewer, John M., I am very much disappointed with this DVD. Read John's review. I ditto that review. Like John, it has been a long time (years) since I have had to give a bad review of anything.

The video in this production is just plain distracting. How can anyone concentrate on what is being said, when the camera is shaking and fading and doing all kinds of gyrations when an explanation of a particular point is being delivered?! This to me is just plain goofy.

I can certainly understand that doing this at the introduction for maybe a minute to begin a DVD would be acceptable...but to continue forever. What in the world were these people thinking?! Did they just want to be "hip" or did they actually want to teach? If the latter, then I feel that they failed miserably.

Lastly, I will give them this. If you are a professional and have been doing mixing for a LONG time and understand most of mixing BEFORE you look at this DVD, well then, if you can overlook the nonsense that goes on with the PRODUCTION of this DVD, then MAYBE you might get something out of it. Like John says...you might get 20 minutes worth of instruction.

However...and this is very important...though I have composed for decades and worked with DAWs for years, I do not consider myself anywhere near being a pro at mixing. If you are in this situation...if you are a beginner...SAVE YOUR MONEY. I don't know what to tell you to get, but don't buy this DVD. You will be grossly disappointed.

DAYTON SAYS: DO NOT BUY THIS DVD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Moving from beginner to intermediate, August 13, 2008

By	Rune Antonsen (Norway) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ready to take your beginner mixing skills to the next level? Then this might be the video for you.

First off, I'm not using Pro Tools and hence have not watched the last DVD which is a Pro Tools session. I'm thinking of about moving to Pro Tools though, but I'm pretty happy with Cubase at the moment. And I've been able to use several of his ideas, concepts AND techniques using other plug-ins and Cubase.

The whole video is centered around one rock song not unlike Foo Fighters -with some obvious differences. The song has been recorded in a professional studio and has a lot of tracks. Charles Dye focuses on the mixing and goes through all of the plug-ins used on each track and instrument: Drums (kick - using 4 tracks, snare - 2 tracks, hihat, toms, overheads, room mics), bass, and a several guitar tracks, keyboard and vocal tracks. Automation is handled at the end. The video is quick-paced so you need pay attention! There are some quite neat tricks he's using in there, and unless you're an experienced/professional mixer I'll be surprised if you didn't learn quite a few new ones.

Inbetween session Charles shares his ideas and concepts of mixing. Some are naturally more obvious than others, especially in the beginning. However, I liked some of the ideas, for instance giving each section of the song it's own feeling and sound, or the ideas of comparing it to a movie with characters and building the drama, etc. The concepts are not only fillers in the video, but he actually tries to show you how to employ these concept and ideas in the real mix. The choice of location spots are somewhat cheesy (although refreshing), I'll admit - but don't let that put you you off for getting the message!

On the negative side, apart from the price tag, he may be overusing the number of plug-ins. The recording sounds quite good to begin with and for instance using a split harmonizer, plate, flanger and hall reverb on the same channel sounds like an overkill in my ears. The same goes wth using the tape saturation plug-in on 80-90% of the tracks. On the other hand, there is no way you'll be running all the plug-ins he's using - even if you are using a top-notch quad-core computer.

What did I get out of this long video? I did certainly learn a lot of new techniques that I instantly used on my own mixes. There is so much information here, you'll be going through the video several times. Recommended.