Today I've recieved a book called Mastering Audio by Bob Katz. Before I ordered it, I thought : "Sure I know a little about equalising, noise reduction, compressing, declicking and limiting. But how hard could it all be, right?" Later on I realised, a rookie error. Damn this is hard, but the mystique surrounding it is all a bit over the top as I've read on sound on sound. Well, sod off. It is hard.
I've been browsing around on the internet and mastered my first track this weekend. It sounded awful. Well, not that terrible, but not as good as I had hoped. Actually it sounded the same as before I mastered it. I feel like I have some good mastering plugins (the Virtos plugin set) and I manage EQ pretty good, but I'm doing something wrong. I can read. I'll find it out.
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Still one of the best books to date IMO. For novice & advanced engineers.
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