Mastering Audio

The Art of the Science

Bob Katz

334 pages, parution le 01/10/2007 (2^eme édition)

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Written by an award winning, highly respected professional, Mastering Audio gives you a thorough introduction to the unique procedures and technical issues involved in mastering. Suitable for all levels of students and professionals, it is ideal for anyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&R, mastering, recording and mixing engineers. Fully updated to cover the latest technologies, Mastering Audio discusses audio philosophy and art: sequencing, leveling, processing; how to make a record album radio-ready; mixing as it reltes to mstering. Divided into 5 parts, the book begins with the basics - monitoring, mastering techniques, useful tutorials and the fundamentals of dithering and decibels and moves on to more advanced concepts - jitter and clocking, monitor collaboration as well as multi channel audio, miking and acoustics. Leading-edge audio concepts are explained in an easy-to-grasp holistic style. Including practical tips and real world experiences, Bob Katz explains the technical detail of the subject in his informative and humorous style.

Audience
Musicians, producers, mastering recording and mixing engineers. Advanced beginners to professional level.

L'auteur - Bob Katz

Three time Grammy Award winner Digital Domain Studios, Orlando Florida
Bob Katz played the B flat clarinet from the age of 10, and his lifelong love of sound and music led him to become a professional recording, mixing and mastering engineer (since 1971). Three of his recordings have garnered the Grammy™ award and many others have been lauded in publications such as Stereo Review, Audio, and Stereophile. He has written over one hundred articles for audio and computer publications, and is an inventor and manufacturer with processors and support gear in use at mastering studios worldwide. His most recent patent-pending inventions, the K-Stereo and K-Surround Processors, fill a missing link in the mastering and post- production pantheon. He has been a workshops, facilities and section chairman of the AES and has given lectures in several countries. Currently, Bob runs Digital Domain Studios just north of Orlando, Florida.

Sommaire

Foreword 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 Index Afterword

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Éditeur(s)	Elsevier
Auteur(s)	Bob Katz
Parution	01/10/2007
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	334
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780240808376
ISBN13	978-0-240-80837-6