The Ask Video Audio Mastering DVD Volumes 1, 2 & 3 is perfect for any learning audio engineer, producer, media technician on a PC Workstation. Whether you have a professional studio or a home setup, these guides will help you begin producing your own masters.
The Ask Video Audio Mastering DVD Volumes 1, 2 & 3 contains a huge range of strategies, tips and hints on using computers to create the best sounding masters possible. Audio Mastering provides support and extends existing knowledge for engineers looking for a way of extending existing knowledge. Audio Mastering includes full English, German, French and Spanish versions.
With more than 180 minutes of video on Volume 1, and more than 160 minutes of video on each Volume 2 and Volume 3, Audio Mastering offers comprehensive knowledge about digital techniques and skilled handling of digital audio data using WaveLab to attain the best possible results in professional mastering.
The Ask Video Audio Mastering DVD Volumes 1, 2 & 3 Main Features Include:
- Over 500 minutes of instructional video
- Extremely high quality tutorial videos
- Features English, German, French, and Spanish language tracks
- Easy to use interface
- Mac OSX & PC Compatible
- Requires computer with DVD-Rom Drive
Audio Mastering DVD Volume 1 Content:
What is mastering?
Defining the goals of mastering
CD mastering of stereo tracks
CD mastering from groups
Time management
Studio acoustics & room acoustics testing and calibration
Choice of speakers & speaker layout
Equipment requirement for mastering
Cabling
Operation system settings
Audio interfaces
Frontend & backend
Our sense of hearing
The Fletcher-Munson curve
Listening strategies
Ear training
Frequency distribution
Metering for mastering
Audio Mastering DVD Volume 2 Content:
Loudness and peak levels
What are interleaved sample overs?
Headroom for encoding
Normalization
Judging loudness
Reference values for loudness
PCM - the principle of digital audio
Basics of bit resolution
What is truncation?
Sample rate basics
Sample rate conversion (SRC)
All about dithering
What is jitter?
AES/EBU & S/P-DIF
Wordclock and houseclock
What is DC offset?
ISRC / EAN
Redbook & DAO/TAO
Optimal workflow
Phase 1: Preparation
Batch processing
Audio Mastering DVD Volume 3 Content:
Phase 2: Creative sound processing
Optimizing the best-sounding track
Using the leveler for A/B comparisons
Saving master section settings
PQ editing
Editing CD text & EAN / ISRC
Final master montage
Phase 3: Follow up
Verification master
Error elimination
Choice of master medium / DDP versus CD-R/CD-ROM
Audio CD report
Basic strategies
Order of processing steps
Working with EQs
Fletcher-Munson curve and EQing
Important filter types
Compressors
Typical examples and strategies
Practical editing examples with master section
ASKVideo Audio Mastering DVD Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (code 84097)
The ideal guide for every audio engineer, producer, media technician or even ambitious home studio enthusiast who masters with a PC or MAC workstation, or wants to begin producing their own masters
£127.56 (inc vat)