Mastering Audio

Features & Benefits

• Outlines the steps taken in producing a compact disc, from creation to final pressing
• Provides insights to equipment, training, and the business of mastering
• Answers questions most frequently asked by audio engineers

Contents

Foreword by Roger Nichols
Preparation:
No Mastering Engineer is an Island; Connecting It Together; An Earientation Session; Word lengths and Dither; Decibels for Dummies; Monitoring
Mastering:
Putting the Album Together; Equalization Techniques;
Macrodynamics; The Downward Processes; The Lost Processes; Noise Reduction; Other Processing
Advance Theory and Practice:
Monitor Calibration; The K-System; Analog and Digital Signal Processing; How to Achieve Depth and Dimension in Recording, Mixing and Mastering; High Sample Rates, Is This Where It's At?; Jitter--Separating the Myths From the Mysteries; Tips and Tricks
Out of the Jungle:
Education, Education, Education; At Last
Appendices

Reviews

In the books 22 chapters and 13 appendices, Katz presents a text that is clear and easy to understand with just enough mathematics and "technical jargon" to explain the technology behind the theory, philosophy, and methodology of the mastering processes, but without overwhelming the reader." - Ron Streicher, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

"The definitive work on mastering... an indispensable resource for anyone working with audio... If you only buy one book on audio, this has to be it - it should be required reading for anyone involved with recording, producing or mastering music."
Sound on Sound magazine

"Bob is a master of the technology changeover from analog to digital. His book covers areas that none other have touched." -George Massenburg,
producer/engineer, Nashville, TN

"Mastering Audio is one of those rare books where everything comes together perfectly: great information, beautifully presented, easy to understand, and satisfying to read." -Greg Simmons
Editorial Director, Audio Technology magazine

"The first piece of equipment [you] should buy is Bob Katz's Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science." -Roger Nichols

"This book is sure to become the 'Industry Bible' on mastering audio. Highly recommended."
Christopher Hambly, www.audiocourses.com

"A terrific book... Bob Katz clearly knows his subject inside out and is a patient, enthusiastic teacher... The things I have learned in this book will immediately affect the way I work with audio right from recording, to editing, mixing and, of course, mastering."
Amazon.co.uk customer review