Something I’ve been working on quietly for a while is now ready. Four reference booklets, one each on equalizers, compressors, reverbs, and saturation. These are tools I reach for every day on the mix stage.

If you’ve been reading this blog over the past year, you’ve seen the posts on these same four topics. The booklets are those posts taken much further. I have a nod to the history and a lot of the working ideas that come from my mix experience. Each booklet is around 120 to 140 pages, organized with information the way I would have wanted to read them when I was learning.

What I tried to do with these is something I haven’t really seen done elsewhere. We start at the fundamentals, the actual physics of what is happening. Then into the workings, what the controls really do when you turn them. Then into the analog circuits, because that is where the character of these tools comes from, and knowing that is a blessing in disguise. And then into the plugins, how those same circuits get modelled in the software we reach for every day. The whole journey, end to end. The maths shows up only where it actually changes a decision you would make.

These are written for working mixers and serious students. Intuitive rather than academic. You can keep them open on the desk while you mix.

Each booklet is $15. The complete set of four is $40.

Happy Mixing!
-FM