Audio mastering
Subtitle: essential practices
By: Jonathan Wyner ; edited by Jonathan Feist
Contributors: Feist, Jonathan, editor; Berklee College of Music
Publisher: Berklee Press; Distributed by Hal Leonard
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA; Milwaukee, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780876390948
Subjects: Sound; Mastering (Sound recordings); Recording and reproducing; Digital techniques
Notes: Companion CD contains audio examples that follow an engineer's manipulations, step-by-step, through two real-world mastering processes.

Includes index.

"Music: recording"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A brief history; title: What is mastering?; title: Tour of a mastering studio : rooms, gears, software; title: The mastering process : life cycle of a project; title: Maximizing fidelity; title: Matching levels : volume, metering, limiting, and A/B listening; title: Compression; title: EQ : corrective and creative; title: Fades and sequencing time between tracks; title: Denoising; title: Quality control and delivery formats; title: Case study 1. Big money; title: Case study 2. Continuity between tracks; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix. Specs of common delivery formats.