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Best books to learn Mixing & mastering, in order

Mixing and mastering is a chain of decisions, and reading it out of order teaches you plugins instead of hearing. The right path starts with gain staging and the fundamentals of EQ and compression as tools you understand, then balance and the mix as a whole, then the finishing craft of loudness and mastering, then genre-specific technique. Learn presets before principles and every mix is a guess; learn the chain and you fix problems instead of chasing them.

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