Hi khad, Ardour is a great production and mixing tool but it doesn't have any inherint facilities for the mastering task. It's very common to not understand this but I do clarify the purpose for each task in the documentation that I'm working on. To the end of writing useful mixing and mastering documentation it's a great thing to realize how much people know about the distinction between those tasks. The number of times that I've displayed my ignorance on ardour-dev is comical. But I could care less about not really knowing because I love learning. ron --- khad <khad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
