Digital Audio Mastering Manual
DIGITAL AUDIO MASTERING MANUAL
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What is this book for?
Primarily, the manual is intended to provide practical help in quickly obtaining professional-level results, aligned with the quality standards of the audio production industry, while avoiding the use of analogue outboards.
Who is the recipient of the manual?
Primarily to semi-professional sound engineers working in home recording
But also sound engineers who are experts in sound recording and not very well versed in mixing.
And finally, it is aimed at beginners, in order to help them correctly learn and experiment with the principles and procedures of digital audio mixing.
SUMMARY
- Cover
- Index
- Work Plan
- Dedication
- Author's biography
- Preface
- Digital Vs Analogue
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CHAPTER 1 - What is needed
- Acoustics
- Monitoring
- Daw
- Objectives
- Know how
CHAPTER 2 - Mastering Preliminaries
- File analysis
- Fine-tuning the stereo image
- Tonal verification
- Dynamic control
- Mix review
- Steam mastering
- Creating a work session
- Tracks and processors
- Other important issues
CHAPTER 3 - 1st move - Cleaning and Stereo Image
- Cleaning Cuttin, silencing, fading
- Noise reduction
- Stereo amplitude
- Centre leveling
CHAPTER 4 - 2nd Move - Tonal Correction
- Foreword
- Acoustic perception
- General tonal imbalances
- Tonal imbalances in a single element
- Verification of tonal coherence
- What is needed
- We operate with eq
- Balancing the bass
- Enhancement
- Automations
- Quality Care
- To conclude
CHAPTER 5 - 3rd move - Dynamic correction
- Foreword
- We measure the dynamics of the audio file
- Standard dynamic density
- Dynamic objectives
- Treatment of abnormal peaks
- Transient enhancement
- De-essing
- Verification of dynamic residual density
- Levelling compression
- Smoothing compression
- Risks inherent in the dynamic process
- If the original mix is too compressed
- Comparison and final corrections
CHAPTER 6 - 4th Move - Finalisation
- Setting
- Verification of final dynamic density
- Limiting and pumping
- Inflator
- Verification, listening and comparison
- Dithering and noise shaping
- Finishing for printing on vinyl
- Exporting the master
- Master for duplication on audio CD
- Encoding
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- Conclusion
- Copyright
Contact
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NOTES TO THE 2ND EDITION 2018
- salient changes and improvements in this edition
- modernisation of processes, also as a result of the new software resources available
- simplification of the subject by better distinguishing the preliminary and theoretical parts from the more strictly operational ones
- refinement of techniques
- deepening of some unclear topics
- revisions to the layout, with a decrease in font size to better suit all types of readers and better display of titles, subtitles and paragraphs
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