Grand Audio Engineering/Mixing and Mastering Course?
Does anyone know of a course or playlist that shows someone how to get into the world of mixing, mastering. I'm a complete noob and would like to learn about that stuff but I don't know the first thing. Is there a course out there which takes someone through the beginner to expert faze of getting the maximum amount of sound out of your recordings? That would be incredible, if such a thing exists. So if someone does know of this kind of thing would they be so kind as to link me to it? A free course would be incredible but that may be asking for too much so don't hesitate if the course costs money, a redirection would just be awesome! It doesn't even need to be a course, even a book or DVD series would be better than nothing. Anything to get me off my feet really.
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To give one more addition to Todd's excellent answer. Video tutorials are even better suited to learning about audio recording over books or other written content IMO because you can hear the techniques they are teaching in action and how it affects the sound, which you simply cannot get from written text.
A youtube channel I highly recommend is The Recording Revolution. It covers an wide range of topics and techniques and is very beginner friendly. He even did a series where he recorded and mixed a song using only 0 worth of recording equipment in total (not including instruments) to show what you can do with very little money. It really is a fantastic resource.
www.youtube.com/user/recordingrevolution/videos
There are thousands of options. Here are some:
Books
Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio by Mike Senior
Recording Secrets for the Small Studio by Mike Senior
Behind the Glass by Howard Massey
Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Arthur Benade
Handbook for Sound Engineers by Glen Ballou
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick (Note that the techniques pioneered in recording The Beatles at Abbey Road form the basis of virtually all music production that followed. This is worthwhile reading regardless of you opinion of The Beatles or the type of music you want to record.)
Web Resources
Sound on Sound
TapeOp
ProSoundWeb
Fora (Forums)
I highly recommend you start off by reading only and not posting on a forum you are new to.
The TapeOp Message Board (TOMB) (best resource in this whole post, sorry Sound.SE)
Sound Design Stack Exchange (Beta)
Right here (music.stackexchange.com)
Other
Berklee College of Music Courses on coursera.org
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