Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Mastering; Rezound, fir filter, digital clipping
From: R Parker (rtp405_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 22:17:26 EEST
--- Daniel James <daniel_AT_mondodesigno.com> wrote:
> > > I've
> > > just sent off for a book called Mastering Audio
> - the Art and the
> > > Science by Bob Katz.
> >
> > Tell us what its like.
>
> I've just had it delivered - on first glance it
> looks laid out well,
> and the content appears to be mostly about digital +
> analogue, not
> just the analogue theory like you might find in an
> old library book.
>
> If I've got a reservation it's that much of the
> hardware the book
> talks about is seriously high end proprietary stuff
> and out of my
> price range, but it looks like the pro kit alright.
> Hopefully I'll
> gain some insights that I can use with our
> relatively low-budget 100%
> software libre approach...
Reguardless of how well we emulate or fail to, the
principles of usage for the tools are similar. It
should be a helpful book. I've never read it or
anything written by Bob Katz. However, I do have some
excellent third party derived conclusions. Someone
said, that Bob Katz said, he likes applying eq to left
and right channels as seperate entities. Instinct
tells me that's a pretty bad idea.
He, Katz, said, or so it has been said that he said
that he likes using reverb during a mastering session.
I've been of the opinion that mastering engineers
don't have any business applying reverb to my mixes.
Never! Shortly after chiseling that into a rock on the
mountain, I turned a 180 when a filter killed the
dynamics of an intro that was full of tape hiss.
Reverb could have restored the sheenie shimmer. If you
know what I mean, then at least one of us does.
Hopefully I learn something once a year.
ron
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
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