Release Year: 2014
Producer: Ask Video
Producer Website: www.askvideo.com/course/mastering-in-the-box
Author: Joe Albano
Duration: 02:14:56
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
Description: Instructor Joe Albano returns with an advanced look at mastering in our popular Audio Concepts series. See how professional audio engineers master their tracks in-the-box in this in-depth, high-level audio engineering course.
Mastering is a craft that combines art with advanced technical skills, and there’s no one better to teach you mastering concepts, techniques, and strategies than professional audio engineer and renowned instructor Joe Albano.
Trainer Joe Albano is back with an advanced look at mastering in our popular Audio Concepts series. See how pro audio engineers master their tracks in-the-box in this in-depth, high-level audio engineering course. Mastering is a craft that combines art with advanced engineering skills and there is no one better to teach you the concepts, techniques and strategies of mastering than pro audio engineer and renowned instructor Joe Albano. In this advanced Audio Concepts course, you are carefully guided through the mastering process as every detail is covered in an example-filled, step-by-step fashion.
This course assumes that you have a pretty solid audio background and that you have a clear understanding of the tools that are used in the mastering chain. (You can easily acquire those prerequisites by watching the other courses in our Audio Concepts series!) Then, with that knowledge in hand, Joe explains how to apply it to ensure that your tracks get that highly-polished, bright, loud and clear sound.
So if mastering has been in your educational sights, sit back, watch, listen and learn this amazing skill from one of the best instructors on the planet.
Content
01 Mixing vs Mastering (06:04)
02 Vinyl to Digital (05:39)
03 Sample Rate vs. Bit Resolution (07:06)
04 Plug-Ins & Applications (03:32)
05 Pre-Mastering (06:47)
06 Setup & Organization (04:34)
07 Using Reference Tracks (06:35)
08 Basic EQ, Comp & Limiting (05:07)
09 Standard, “Character” & Linear-Phase EQ (04:46)
10 EQ in Use (08:59)
11 Matching EQ (04:36)
12 Single-Band vs Multi-Band Compression (06:39)
13 Multi-Band Compression Basics (05:41)
14 Multi-Band Compression Applications (08:21)
15 Brickwall Limiting Basics (04:51)
16 Average vs Peak Levels (07:55)
17 Limiting In Use (08:21)
18 Inter-Sample Peaks (06:31)
19 M/S Processing (07:51)
20 Final Checks (05:42)
21 Dithering (03:00)
22 Bouncing & File Formats (04:49)
23 Wrap-Up (01:18)
Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30,000 fps, ~799 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 96.0 kbps, 2 channels
