On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:28:22 +0100, Daniel James 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, 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 think thats going to be good, the author and publisher (focal press) has a good reputation, other books I've read in thier series have been good. Tell us what its like. > 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. Its now a jack app (which mostly uses LADSPA for its processing): http://sf.net/projects/jamin its nearing the stage where feedback on the UI and sound quality would be useful, so if you have any spare testing cycles please join the list. - Steve
