[linux-audio-user] Mastering; Rezound, fir filter, digital clipping

[khad]

Have you try `ardour', I think it is good enough for audio mastering...

R Parker wrote:
 > --- Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> wrote:
 >
 >>>I'm doing a study on audio mastering. Hopefully
 >>
 >>this
 >>
 >>>letter will generate some correspondance from
 >>
 >>which
 >>
 >>>I'll learn enough to augment a GFDL licensed
 >>
 >>document
 >>
 >>>that I've been working on.
 >>
 >>I look forward to reading that. Mastering is a
 >>mystery to me,
 >
 >
 > I've noticed that audio mastering is a mystery to many
 > musicians and engineers. If using a well designed
 > tool, the mystery will evaporate. And yes, that is
 > contrary to what most of us have heard during our
 > careers but I stand by the claims that A, mastering is
 > easy and B,  digital audio mastering produces great
 > results.
 >
 > There is a linux mastering tool. It hasn't been
 > announced yet because it's in an alpha stage of
 > development which is why I didn't mention the
 > application name in the original letter. But the cat
 > is out of the bag, see jamin.sourceforge.net.
 >
 > Hope you like JAMIN too,
 >
 > ron
 >
 >  so I've
 >
 >>just sent off for a book called Mastering Audio -
 >>the Art and the
 >>Science by Bob Katz. Are there any other titles that
 >>list members
 >>could recommend on the subject?
 >>
 >>I know there are specialist mastering applications
 >>on other platforms,
 >>but what are the options on Linux? I know Audacity
 >>has recently added
 >>a gui compressor, and Glame used to have a great
 >>normalisation tool.
 >>Plus there's quite a few relevant LADSPA plugins - I
 >>know Steve
 >>Harris was working on a mastering toolkit.
 >>
 >>It seems to me we've got all the elements there, but
 >>they haven't
 >>really been drawn together specifically for
 >>mastering yet. I'm just
 >>compiling Glame 1.0 now to see what that's like.
 >>
 >>Cheers
 >>
 >>Daniel