Atlantis
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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 Posted: Fri Apr 15 2005 05:57
Mastering tutorial needs your input |
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Someone has asked me to write a tutorial on mastering, but rather than throwing my 'career' as an online mastering engineer away by giving away all my trade secrets, it will just be a basic coverage of the fundamentals of mastering.
It'll describing the foundations of mastering, which, if unknown to the beginning engineer or producer, would typically result in a lot of wasted time learning things by trial-and-error, rather than being able to gain that all-important experience.
I'll cover things like what mastering is, what its pre-requisites are, and the general process with which to go about doing it (effect order, how to generally set up the effects, etc.).
Unlike too many other mastering tutorials though, I'll focus only on digital music and mastering in a digital environment, so the focus will be on software only, and using things like noise reduction will be a thing of the past. Too many tutorials have confused me in the past because of the thin line between the analogue and digital domains, so I plan to clearly focus solely on the digital world.
It'll be a beginner's guide to mastering your own music produced with software, so that those who can't afford to pay for professional mastering can at least attempt to start mastering their own work. And of course more professional producers are still welcome to look to me for doing a more professional job.  (yes, a new site and official mastering service are coming just as soon as I can get my own connection installed at home). 
But the point of this is post is just to get some further ideas as to what I could include. So does anyone maybe have any particular questions they would like answered? Something you've always wondered about mastering and how to go about doing it? Either post them here or mail them through to my email address on my artist page here. |
Atlantis [Atlantean Records]
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Factor
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Posted: Fri Apr 15 2005 22:02
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Sounds great Atlantis!
Great iniative here 
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Sunbuster
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Posted: Sun Apr 17 2005 16:25
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I've been thinking about what I would like to read in a tutorial of this kind, but to be honest I can't think of anything that you probably haven't thought of already. Guess you should just start up the work, and post a beta (so to speak) in a while. When people read through it they'll probably come up with more stuff that they'd want added |
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Atlantis
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Posted: Mon Apr 18 2005 03:32
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I've been thinking about what I would like to read in a tutorial of this kind, but to be honest I can't think of anything that you probably haven't thought of already. Guess you should just start up the work, and post a beta (so to speak) in a while. When people read through it they'll probably come up with more stuff that they'd want added
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Yep, I'll upload a preliminary version in the next few days. |
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Atlantis
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Posted: Thu Apr 21 2005 06:47
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I've uploaded a draft version here: http://atlantis.plastiqueweb.com/documents/digital_audio_mastering.txt
Some sections are still incomplete, but I'm open to suggestions or any criticism as to how I can improve what's already there. Any additional points that might be worth mentioning too?
Sorry about the word wrap problem - didn't realise this 'til after I'd taken the file to where I could upload it from. Just open it in Notepad and select Word Wrap from the Format menu. |
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