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Chapter 18 ANS -
Mastering ANS - art form that uses high quality audio gear in conjunction with one or more sets of
critical ears to help the artist, producer, and/or record label attain a particular sound and feel before the
recording is made into a finished manufactured product
Mastering Engineer ANS - goes about the task of shaping and arranging the various cuts of a project
into a final form that can be replicated into a salable product
Sound "right" ANS - accomplished through the use of careful EQ matching and dynamics processing.
The sound that you are looking for!
Right Order ANS - best done by the artist to get the overall feel
Playback at optimum levels ANS - -industry typically sets the average level at the highest possible.
-they want their project to stand out
-accomplished by applying compression to the track
-overcompression can lead to a sound that can squash your ears out
-light compression is the alternative
match levels ANS - matched from transitioning from one song to another. The goal is to improve the
flow of a project by keeping songs from sticking out
, bonus tracks ANS - a song that is considered an extra that wasn't originally included
transitions ANS - the space between songs.
-average is 2 seconds of silence
crossfades ANS - the transitions from one song to the net is best served by cross-fading from one track
directly to the next. Such fade could intertwine the 2 pieces
normalization ANS - the application of a constant amount of gain to an audio recording to bring the
average or peak amplitude to a target level (the norm).
EQ ANS - tool ofr boosting, cutting, or tightening the low end, adding presence to the midrange, and
tailoring the high end of a song.
dynamics ANS - compression
-too much compression will look like a box
multiband dynamic processing ANS - in order to break the frequencies of the audio spectrum into
bands that can be individually processed.
digital noise reduction ANS - -process of removing noise from a signal.
-All recording devices, both analog and digital, have traits that make them susceptible to noise.
-Noise can be random or white noise with no coherence, or coherent noise introduced by the device's
mechanism or processing algorithms.
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