More than 500 pages on audio mastering with hundreds of examples, online media, tests, activities, etc.

This book deals with digital sound processing for audio mastering, entirely inside a computer, ITB, In the Box. We chose to deal with the ITB mode mainly because, nowadays, thanks to the computing power of our computers, it is possible to achieve a high level of accuracy and calculation. Considering that these computers are now within anyone's reach, such a text may help the reader make things that only few mastering studios, provided with expensive equipment, could have done before.

Topics

Production chain - Background history and meaning of mastering - Types of processing - Metering - Analyzing material to master - Filtering, DC offset removal and timbral changes - Spatial processing - Dynamics processing - Distortion and saturation - Noise reduction - M/S mastering - Stem mastering - Surround mastering - Dither - Authoring - Red book - Mastering for streaming and compressed formats