Hepworth-Sawyer / Hodgson Audio Mastering: The Artists

Discussions from Pre-Production to Mastering
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-48004-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Audio Mastering: The Artists investigates the affect each phase of the production process on the last creative stage: mastering. Using interviews sourced over many years from over 50 professionals, this book discusses the whole production process with a particular focus on the mastering engineer.

Interviewees include: Sir George Martin, Bob Ezrin, Ian Anderson, Peter Mensch, Andy Karp, Paula Cole, and Paul McGuinness, and many others. Audio Mastering: The Artists includes content that has never been fully released.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hepworth-Sawyer, Russ

Hodgson, Jay

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1 – Introduction

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Section 2 – The Production Process – It’s Influence on the Master

Chapter 2 – The Production Process

Section 3 – The History of Mastering

Chapter 4 – Introduction

Chapter 5 – Experience of Interviewees from the Shop Floor

Chapter 6 – The Current Scene (New and Emerging Talent)

Section 4 – The Art of Mastering

Chapter 7 – Making a Start

Chapter 8 – Processing: EQ

Chapter 9 – Processing: Dynamics

Chapter 10 – Processing: The Rest

Chapter 11 – The Product: Balancing for the Album

Section 5 – The Mastering Industry

Chapter 12 – Clients and Labels

Chapter 13 – Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

In addition to freelancing as a mastering engineer, writer, and consultant, Russ lectures part-time for York St John University and has taught extensively in Higher Education institutions in the UK.

In addition to producing, mixing, and mastering, Jay Hodgson teaches songwriting and project paradigm record production in the Popular Music Studies program at Western University in London.