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Mastering Music at Home
Mastering is the final stage of creating a piece of recorded music, before either releasing it on the web or duplicating it onto CD for distribution. It's essential for putting the final professional "finish" on the audio; making sure the tone is correctly balanced, the dynamics are controlled, and the level is set properly. While professional
mastering engineers have expensive specialized equipment to help them with the mastering process, the latest generation of hardware and software tools available to home and project studio musicians can do a wonderful job of mastering audio releases at a fraction of the cost of commercial mastering houses. Mastering Music At Home is for any home and project studio owners or operator. It's for musicians and engineers who record on a limited budget and can't afford to pay a professional mastering engineer thousands of dollars to master their music, but still want to get professional level results when releasing their songs to the web or CD. After an overview of mastering and the gear required, the book goes on to cover acoustic considerations, studio set-up, problem solving, distribution, and much, much more. The book's companion CD-ROM includes examples, useful helper applications, and plug-in demos to help you work through the book's tutorials. This is the only guide you will ever need to take your home recordings to the next level.
CONTENTS:
What is mastering
The gear required
Acoustic considerations
Setting up a studio for mastering
Step-by-step guide to getting great results
Solving mix problems with mastering
Mastering for CD
Mastering for the Web
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