Gibson has produced major concert events utilizing 3D visuals with 3D glasses. He has also produced many multimedia events at his Institute.

Gibson has engineered and produced albums in a wide range of styles of music – Acoustic Rock, Jazz, Rock, New Age, Heavy Metal, Rap, Hip Hop, and Electronica. Gibson has been teaching, engineering, and producing groups in major 24-track studios since 1982 and was the founder and owner of California Recording Institute in San Francisco for ten years. Before that, he taught recording at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California for five years. He has been using the concepts and visuals presented in this book in his classes since 1986. He is currently the owner of Globe Institute of Recording and Production in San Francisco.

David has also done recording for James Brown’s band, Bobby Whitlock (Derek and the Dominoes), the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and Hank Williams Jr.’s band, as well as having worked with members of the Doobie Brothers, Lacy J. Dalton’s band, Herbie Hancock’s band, and It’s a Beautiful Day.

Gibson is also the inventor of the patented “Virtual Mixer,” which displays a mix visually in real time. He created a customized version on the Silicon Graphics computer that shows the visuals in 3D with 3D glasses.

Gibson’s book, The Art of Mixing, has been the #1 selling book in the field of audio for 8 years. Gibson is the co-author of, The Art of Producing, with Maestro Curtis. He is also the producer of the successful DVD and Video series, The Art of Mixing. Gibson created over two hours of animations for a blue screen that show 3D images of sounds between the speakers. The images float over the console while Gibson is teaching how to mix on a mixing board.