Mixerman's Ultimate Guide to Producing Records, Music & Songs (book)

At almost 600 pages, this is a hefty book, and I just finished reading every word of it. Mixerman is Eric Sarafin [Tape Op #34]; an engineer, producer, mixer, musician, and writer with many decades of real experience making records. Subtitled "Everything You Need to Know About Producing, Recording, Mixing & Mastering Music at Home or in the Studio" and noted as "The Antidote to Misinformation," Mixerman's Ultimate Guide to Producing Records, Music & Songs basically supersedes his 2012 book, Zen and the Art of Producing [#93], smartly updating to the changing times we work in these days. It also points out a lot of the crap information foisted on us by the inexperienced goons that seems to flood the internet these days. Whereas Zen… was oriented more towards doing work for hire in rented studios, this new book takes in a wide scope of how personal studios, shrinking budgets, and working methods have evolved over the last 13 years. Eric covers a lot of ground in this book, and every chapter is full of his earned wisdom and straight-to-the-point information. With a similar number of years in the studio as Eric, I was constantly saying, "Yup. That’s the truth," as I read these pages.