The Art Of Mixing Visualizer Parodies

About

The Art Of Mixing Visualizer Parodies refers to exploitable memes about visuals from David Gibson's 1997 book "The Art Of Mixing." The book featured images showing different components of a track laid out within a 3D space in the form of circles labeled as "Bass," "Hi Hat," "Snare," "Guitar" and so on. The image is sometimes edited to show the spheres representing different humorous sounds, like cowbells or ad-libs.

Origin

David Gibson released his book "The Art Of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording," on July 1st, 1997. He subsequently made a video representing his ideas, reposted to YouTube^[1] by TVHomeStudio on Mar 26th, 2012, where it gathered over 3 million views in twelve years (seen below).

Spread

The aforementioned YouTube video was reposted to Reddit^[2] on July 13th, 2018 by an unknown Redditor, with a since-deleted response showing a still from the instructional video. The post gathered over 2,000 upvotes in five years (seen below).

On January 15th, 2023, Tumblr^[3] page @effemimaniac made a post using an image from David Gibson's video, writing, "I want to go here when I die." The post gathered over 4,000 notes in a year (seen below).

On March 13th, 2024, X^[4] user @gravitygauntlet posted the image, writing, "this is actually the most effective way to visualize mixing i've ever seen," gathering over 16,000 likes in two days (seen below, left). The post received joking responses parodying the image, as seen in a reply by X^[5] user @Poopsoc62992682 that gathered over 1,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).

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