Want to learn to produce music, or sharpen up on your music production skills? These guides are a great place to start.

When looking for solid music production advice there is so much noise, it can be hard to find the right place to start.

In this post, we highlight 5 of the most respected and well-recommended guides to music production available to buy right now. We hope you find exactly what you are looking for here, but if you are after more educational resources for music we recommend you check out this section of our free music industry directory.

5 of the Best Music Production Guides Available Right Now

Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques

This brilliant music production book dares you to “unlearn” safe record-making and will walk you through techniques and processes to take your music production to a whole new level. It’s rated 5 stars on Amazon by a whopping 87% of customers and really is a great ready.

Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio (Sound On Sound Presents…)

So you want to produce release-ready music that sounds like it has come out of a professional studio but you’re making the beats from your bedroom? This is the book for you. It’s amazing what some knowledge and practise can do for the quality of your mixes. Give this guide a go now if you are a bedroom producer.

The Secrets of Dance Music Production

Dance music production is an art of its own and very different to many other genres. This book gets into the specifics of dance music production and will help you raise your game with 312 colour pages packed with technique, tips, illustrations and hands-on walkthroughs.

Rockschool Music Productions Grade 1

Rockschool’s Music Production syllabus is the world’s first graded system for aspiring music producers, recording and mix engineers and recording artists. If you want to track your processes and pass exams in music production this series of books is for you.

Music Producers Handbook Second Edition (Music Pro Guides)

One of the most complete guides to music production we have ever come across. This book is more than a technical guide it will also help budding producer understand all elements involved in a typical production, including budgeting, contracts, selecting the studio and engineer, hiring session musicians, and even getting paid. Essential reading!!

Happy reading!

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