Mixing in Pro Tools by Brian Smithers '82

Brian Smithers ’82, Mixing in Pro Tools (Thomson Course Technology, 2006)

This book-DVD set is a guide to using Pro Tools, a popular music recording and mixing software, for editing. Its presentation is called a “skill pack.” This enables the reader to test her ability with a specific software skill and then complete a project with step-by-step instructions, using Smithers’s source files on the accompanying DVD and honing a specific skill while actually working within an application. Smithers, a musician, conductor, composer, and recording engineer, is a course director at Full Sail Real World Education, one of the largest digital audio workstation labs in the world. He also teaches music technology at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and writes articles for several music magazines.