About the Author
Friedemann Tischmeyer has worked in audio mastering and mixing for more than 15 years. An engineer for countless well-known artists and the owner of his own independent mastering facility, Friedemann has also published two Tutorial DVD-ROMs, ‘Internal Mixing’ and two extremely well-received books ‘Audio Mastering with PC Workstations’ and ‘Internal Mixing’.
Contents
Vol. I
(Chapter I: Basics)
- What is mastering?
- Defining the goals of mastering
- CD mastering of stereo tracks
- CD mastering from groups
- Time management
- Studio acoustics & room acoustics testing and calibration
- Choice of speakers & speaker layout
- Equipment requirement for mastering
- Cabling
- Operation system settings
- Audio interfaces
- Frontend & backend
- Our sense of hearing
- The Fletcher-Munson curve
- Listening strategies
- Ear training
- Frequency distribution
- Metering for mastering
Vol. II
(cont. chapter I: Basics)
- Loudness and peak levels
- What are interleaved sample overs?
- Headroom for encoding
- Normalization
- Judging loudness
- Reference values for loudness
- PCM – the principle of digital audio
- Basics of bit resolution
- What is truncation?
- Sample rate basics
- Sample rate conversion (SRC)
- All about dithering
- What is jitter?
- AES/EBU & S/P-DIF
- Wordclock and houseclock
- What is DC offset?
- ISRC / EAN
- Redbook & DAO/TAO
(Chapter II: Workflow)
- Optimal workflow
- Phase 1: Preparation
- Batch processing
Vol. III
(cont. chapter II: Workflow)
- Phase 2: Creative sound processing
- Optimizing the best-sounding track
- Using the leveler for A/B comparisons
- Saving master section settings
- PQ editing
- Editing CD text & EAN / ISRC
- Final master montage
- Phase 3: Follow up
- Verification master
- Error elimination
- Choice of master medium / DDP versus CD-R/CD-ROM
- Audio CD report
(Chapter III: Creative Sound Processing)
- Basic strategies
- Order of processing steps
- Working with EQs
- Fletcher-Munson curve and EQing
- Important filter types
- Compressors
- Typical examples and strategies
- Practical editing examples with master section
