--- Daniel James <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
