...What I will say is that the advice given in this book is, in no way, worth the price if the book. The information is far too basic and is presented over and over again until the reader is completely turned-off Y-Z axis and a series of colored spheres representing the different instruments. That covers about 5 pages. Throughout the rest of the book , we are hit with what seems like hundreeds of these same graphs, each representing examples of different mixes. The problem is, they do not teach us anything other than "every mix is different". To me, that's just not enough.

In short, the basic theory is good, but it is more geared toward a magazine article than to an entire book. priced fluff which, in reality, detracts from the fact that the basic theory makes sense...

I will agree with most of the reviews that this book's images helped in conveying stereo field information, however, I have two problems with this book:

1) The images are exremely redundant and take up half of the already slim 124 pages (where does the publisher get 144 from?)

2) The book's content does not justify the price.

Contrary to someone elses comment, I found the book to be exremely lacking in the area of compression. On the other hand, it did have some useful info on equalization settings.

For the pros and home-musicians alike, this book gives a surprisingly clear view of virtually all aspects of recording and mixing in the studio. For me, having read the book, I suddenly understood why my mixes were only so-so and certainly not good enough for record companies (especially the section on compression is great!). This book provides highly valuable insight, which means that you still have to practice a lot to really improve your skills, but that practicing becomes much more pleasurable having read this book.