Introduction Mastering used to be the process of turning a collection of songs into an album by making them sound like they belong together in tone, volume, and timing (spacing between songs). Mastering nowwadays is the process fine-tuning the level, frequency balance, and metadata of a track in preparation for distribution.It’s already been 16 years since the first edition of The Mastering Engineer’s Handbook came out, and boy, have things changed. It’s safe to say that there’s been a mighty revolution in the mastering world, with old technologies replaced and new ones continually evolving. Gone are the days of tape machines (for the most part), and soon even the CD will be a thing of the past.
Gone—again, for the most part—are the days of “heavy iron” customized outboard gear that was necessary for a high-quality mastering job. Even though the basic mastering tools are still the same, they’ve mostly moved into the world of the DAW, so even someone with the most entry-level system now has the use of powerful tools that only the top mastering pros had access to in the past. And maybe best of all, it’s now possible to totally prep just about any kind of audio for any kind of distribution (which is what mastering really is) at home in your personal studio.
Just like everything else in music and recording, some really excellent mastering tools are available to just about anyone with a DAW (which is most of us that are into music these days). That makes the process of mastering very inexpensive compared to previous generations of musicians and audio engineers, but just because you own a hammer doesn’t mean that you know how to swing it. A lot of harm can come from misuse of the tools of mastering if the process and concepts are not thoroughly understood. And that’s what this book is about.
• Publisher: Bobby Owsinski Media Group
• Language: English
• Pages: 235
• Files: PDF, 8.79 MB
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