Audio Mastering - Essential Practices

by Jonathan Wyner

(Berklee Guide). Improve the sound of your recordings. Mastering is the art of optimizing recorded sound, finding the ideal volume levels and tonal quality, and insuring data integrity necessary to produce a professional-quality duplication and distribution-ready master. This book introduces the techniques and tools of audio mastering, suitable for commercial and home/project studio environments. Technical discussions address gear, studio setup, methodologies, goals, and other considerations for making tracks sound their best, individually and in relationship to other tracks. The accompanying recording has audio examples that support two detailed case studies where readers can follow a mastering engineer's manipulations step by step.

Genres: Music

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ro Arce · Rating 3 out of 5]

So many things have changed since 2013. It needs a 2nd Edition.

[Rodrigo Gonçalves · Rating 1 out of 5]

Most interesting part of the book, a walk-through of the mastering process, refers audio tracks from an included CD…but this is 2025: CD players are not common anymore!!

The publisher or the author should make the audio content available online. Would be beneficial to everyone…