Audio Mastering: Separating the Science from Fiction [Paperback]

Audio Mastering: Separating the Science from Fiction is an ideal guide to tangible development as a mastering engineer. This book offers a comprehensive overview of mastering processes, teaching the reader to link critical listening skills with analysis to comprehend the processing required to improve the quality of their audio.

1. What is mastering... really?  2. Enabling analysis  3. The monitor path  4. Looking to the mix  5. Analysis: Constructive, comparative and corrective  6. Mastering tools  7. Equalisation and tonal balance  8. Dynamic processors and tonal balance  9. Contextual processing analysis  10. The transfer path  11. Practical approach to dynamic controls  12. Practical approach to dynamic processing  13. Practical approach to equalisation  14. Navigating loudness  15. Bring it all together: Engaging in mastering  16. Restrictions of delivery formats  17. Whats next?

JP Braddock is a highly experienced audio engineer focused in both analogue and digital domain mastering. With over thirty years of experience in the music industry, he has delivered hundreds of albums over the last three decades, spanning a wide range of genres, including dance/electronic, folk, jazz and rock/metal. Through Formation Audio (https://mastering.ninja/), JP works as a mastering engineer, writer and educator delivering workshops for higher educational institutions across the UK.

Audio Mastering: Separating the Science from Fiction is an ideal guide to tangible development as a mastering engineer. This book offers a comprehensive overview of mastering processes, teaching tl&