Mastering Audio explains leading-edge audio concepts in an easy-to-grasp, holistic manner, including an ear-opening investigation of the mysteries of jitter, dither and wordlengths, high sample rates, distortion, headroom, monitor calibration, metering, depth perception, compression and expansion, equipment interconnection and much more. Mastering Audio is for everyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&R, mastering, recording and mixing engineers, and students. *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
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
extremely good:
Very good book with lots of info on digital audio, analog audio, mastering and gear setup for a good monitoring, mastering and modern mixing 'in the box' studio. AM Studios recommendation :-D http://am.subversounds.com
Audio Bible:
This is a must-have book for anyone interested in best practices when it come to digital audio. Its quite similar to the first edition but its clearly had a thorough revision with loads of extra stuff. Don't think about it, just buy it. How many other authors can be bothered to go into so much detail on the subject and even answer questions on Gearslutz dot com?
Great help in Mastering Audio:
Just what I needed, specific information and guidance in Mastering Audio. I found it a great help and well worth the money. I would recommend the book to others for sure.
Some excellent opinions and hopefully trend changing.:
After reading (no, devouring) Mastering Audio I had mostly good feelings and it is difficult for me to describe why it wasn't great. Bob Katz is absolutely spot on about the state of mastering in the past decade and that over compressing audio has ruined music. It is without a doubt required reading on the subject. But being that I do not have a state of the art mastering facility (lets be honest, how many of you do?) this book takes a high end view on a subject that has increasingly become a do-it-yourself... more info
