In this new edition, discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings, even in the smallest studios, by applying power-user techniques from the world's most successful producers.

Mike Senior is a professional recording and mixing engineer who has worked with Wet Wet Wet, The Charlatans, Reef, Therapy?, and Nigel Kennedy. He specialises in adapting the techniques of top producers for those working on a budget and has been a regular writer for Sound On Sound magazine since 2007. Mike is also the author of the best-selling Focal Press book Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio, has a long-running weekly production-critique blog at TheMixReview.org and creates podcasts, videos, and tutorials for the Cambridge-MT.com educational resources site.

Part 1: One Source, No Mics 1. Recording a Machine 2. The Human Element 3. Instruments with Pickups Part 2: One Source, One Mic 4. Basic Vocal Recording 5. Beyond Vanilla Vocals 6. Single-Mic Instrument Recording Part 3: One Source, Multiple Mics 7. Multimiking in Mono 8. Multimiking in Stereo Part 4: Multiple Sources, Multiple Mics 9. Ensemble Recording with a Dominant Array 10. Adding Spot Arrays 11. Ensemble Recording with Peer Arrays 12. Going Freestyle 13. Conclusion