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

--- Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> wrote: 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