MITB Mastering in the box

More than 500 pages on audio mastering with hundreds of examples, online media, tests, activities, etc.

This book deals with digital sound processing for audio mastering, entirely inside a computer, ITB, In the Box. We chose to deal with the ITB mode mainly because, nowadays, thanks to the computing power of our computers, it is possible to achieve a high level of accuracy and calculation. Considering that these computers are now within anyone's reach, such a text may help the reader make things that only few mastering studios, provided with expensive equipment, could have done before.

Topics

Production chain - Background history and meaning of mastering - Types of processing - Metering - Analyzing material to master - Filtering, DC offset removal and timbral changes - Spatial processing - Dynamics processing - Distortion and saturation - Noise reduction - M/S mastering - Stem mastering - Surround mastering - Dither - Authoring - Red book - Mastering for streaming and compressed formats