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The Complete Guide to Remixing: Produce Professional Dance-Floor Hits on Your Home Computer
Erik Hawkins
*The Complete Guide to Remixing* is Erik Hawkins's practical handbook for making professional dance-floor tracks on a home computer. Part of the Berklee methods series, it walks through the whole craft of the remix: the hardware and software to set up a project studio, techniques in programs like Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic and Reason, the production tricks behind contemporary club remixes, and even the practical business of legally sourcing and clearing tracks to remix. An included CD offers more than fifty example tracks — arrangements in progress and finished productions — plus tips from working remixers and DJs. Aimed at aspiring producers in the early-2000s bedroom-studio boom, it speaks to anyone learning electronic dance music production from the ground up.
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The author
Erik "Hawk" Hawkins is a composer, producer, remixer and electronic-music artist who has written several instructional titles for Berklee Press. His books come out of hands-on studio and dance-music experience rather than the conservatory.
The book
Published by Berklee Press in 2004, the guide covers the history, technology, craft and art of remixing, organized so a newcomer can assemble a studio and work toward professional-sounding results, with a companion CD of worked examples and advice from industry remixers.
How it has aged
The musical principles — arrangement, sound design, groove — hold up, but a 2004 book is inevitably dated on specific software versions and on a music business since reshaped by streaming and online distribution. Read it for fundamentals, and check current tools for the technical particulars.
For more context
It pairs naturally with other Berklee production titles and with Hawkins's writing on studio technique.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Erik Hawkins
- Publisher
- Berklee Press
- Place of publication
- Boston
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Music
- Location
- Colorado