The Mind of the Mixer

Before YouTube tutorials… Before plugin influencers… Before every engineer on earth had a mixing channel… There was a mysterious online diary. In 2002, a series of anonymous posts began appearing on an online recording forum. The author called himself Mixerman. Each entry read like a dispatch from a disastrous studio session — a band that…

When engineers talk about influential mixing books, one title always appears. Not because it’s technical. But because it changes the way you think about sound. Michael Paul Stavrou’s Mixing With Your Mind isn’t really a book about EQ or compression. It’s a book about perception. And the best lessons in the book are surprisingly simple….