Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Mastering; Rezound, fir filter, digital clipping
From: R Parker (rtp405_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 18:45:59 EEST
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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