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

R Parker rtp405 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 16 11:59:01 EDT 2003


Hi khad,

Ardour is a great production and mixing tool but it
doesn't have any inherint facilities for the mastering
task. It's very common to not understand this but I do
clarify the purpose for each task in the documentation
that I'm working on. To the end of writing useful
mixing and mastering documentation it's a great thing
to realize how much people know about the distinction
between those tasks. The number of times that I've
displayed my ignorance on ardour-dev is comical. But I
could care less about not really knowing because I
love learning.

ron

--- khad <khad at landak.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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