Have you try `ardour', I think it is good enough for audio mastering... R Parker wrote: > --- 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
