Whether you're a DJ, engineer, producer or aspiring remixer, this comprehensive collection of dance music tips and interviews from Keyboard magazine in packed with production secrets you can use. Beginners can check out the intro to loops and sampling, and legal tips on sample clearance. More experienced remixers will learn how to craft synth hooks and retro grooves, edit vocals, create loops, and compress bass tracks. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Mac and PC demo software of Ableton Live, and actual session files from Gabriel and Dresden, Coldcut, Jacinta and Meat Beat Manifesto so you can get started remixing immediately.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
finally a book that isn't for beginners, January 4, 2008
By
fidgetman (Australia)
I was glad to actually come across a book that was catered towards people who had a bit of experience with making beats. Most of these sorts of books are always for people who want to start from scratch. It's not like it's a book for experts and beginners can't pick this up, infact it could be useful to most. People with a lot of experience could find something in there worth the buy, and people who are relatively new to the world of remixing, (but really it caters to beat making in general) or have some experience under their belt, should be able to find a whole lot of useful information.
As cheesy as the title might be, this book is quality.
Changed my whole perspective on electronic music production, January 2, 2008
By
C. Koski (Redmond, WA USA)
Back in 1999, I started playing with loop sequencing and over the years have assembled a few dozen tracks. I most recently started getting hardware to support my music endeavours, and I stumbled across this book in a bookstore. When I flipped through it, I knew this would be the one as it covered all of the aspects of remixing and editing. Going in depth, arguably its best chapters are on sound design and mixing. I have discovered a new language, and now I can go back to all of my computer music magazines and actually understand what they are talking about. Knowing how to visualize what you are doing to sound made all the difference for me and now I can program my own synths.
The other aspect I really liked about this book was that the tips from real musicians were particularly englightening. Seeing how deep these other musicians go to get their sound inspired me to become more flexible in my approach to writing music.
Definitely a great buy.
Great Work, Fun Read, Great Format, May 21, 2007
By
Jesse Brede (Austin, Tx)
I really enjoyed reading Fracis Preve's "The Remixer's Bible". He keeps it light and fun while still giving you a ton of tricks and insight into remixing and sound design. I would recommend this book for beginners to experts. I also really like the history lessons around certain sounds and the gear that was used to make it. I also like the format of the book as its broken up into lots of smaller sections that you can read and then try out.
