3
Understanding the Mix
“Like a book, a recording reduces the listener to the position of passive consumer.”
O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing Through the Skylight, Penguin, New York, 1989.
3.1 Fundamentals and Concepts
3.1.1 Terminology
The production chain for recorded and live music, from conception to consumption, consists of several stages of creative and technical processes. Compositions or improvisations materialize as acoustic vibrations, which are then captured, sculpted and rendered. Figure 3.1 shows a simplified depiction of such a music production chain.
Figure 3.1 Example of a music production chain in the case of a stereo ...
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