16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
1:58 p.m.
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(a)landak.com> wrote:
Have you try `ardour', I think it is good enough
for
audio mastering...
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--- Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com>
wrote:
I've noticed that audio mastering is a mystery to
many
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, 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