Mixing Music

This series, Perspectives On Music Production, collects detailed and experientially informed considerations of record production from a multitude of perspectives, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative and professional contexts. Each volume in the series thus focuses directly on a distinct aesthetic "moment" in a record’s production, from pre-production through recording (audio engineering), mixing, mastering, to marketing and promotions. This first volume in the series, titled Mixing Music, focuses directly on the mixing process.

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer has been involved in professional audio for over two decades. Throughout his career, Russ has maintained a part time Higher Education role teaching and researching all things audio (www.hepworthhodgson.com). Russ is current member and former board member of the Music Producer’s Guild and helped form their Mastering Group. Through MOTTOsound (www.mottosound.com), Russ works freelance in the industry as a mastering engineer, writer and consultant. Russ currently lectures part time for York St John University and has taught extensively in Higher Education at institutions including Leeds College of Music, London College of Music and Rose Bruford College and has contributed sessions at Barnsley College. He has written for MusicTech Magazine, Pro Sound News Europe and Sound On Sound plus has written many titles for Focal Press/Routledge.

Dr. Jay Hodgson is on faculty at Western University, where he primarily teaches courses on songwriting and project paradigm record production. He is also one of two mastering engineers at MOTTOsound — a boutique audio services house situated in England, and now Canada, whose engineers’ credits include work on projects containing the likes of Rush, Three Days Grace, The New Pornographers, Glen Campbell, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Barenaked Ladies, and numerous other household names. In the last few years, Dr. Hodgson has worked on records nominated for Juno Awards, which topped Beatport’s global techno and house charts, and he has scored films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, and which screened at the United Nations General Assembly. He was awarded a Governor General’s academic medal in 2006, primarily in recognition of his research on audio recording; and his second book, Understanding Records (2010), was recently acquired by the Reading Room of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has other books published, and forthcoming, from Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Focal Press and Routledge.