[ted hyland[_2_]]

First off, let me apologize if this has been covered recently. I haven't
been paying attention to the group and I've forgotten how to check the
archives.

Secondly, when I say mastering I mean taking stereo mixes from whatever
sources, putting them together, adjusting eq, volume and whatever and
making a finished CD ready for duplication or replication.

I care more about what you are using, but if you want to spill a few
secrets on some settings or procedures, that's OK too.

Now, I'm in the box using ProTools and I've become attached to Waves, so
I'm looking to see what other people are doing.

[Marc Wielage]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:55:36 -0800, ted hyland commented:

Secondly, when I say mastering I mean taking stereo mixes from whatever
sources, putting them together, adjusting eq, volume and whatever and
making a finished CD ready for duplication or replication.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking: "in mastering,
should I work with WAV files at 44.1kHz 16-bit, or use higher-resolution
files?"

It's a controversial area. I can tell you that certain kinds of sound
processes theoretically work better at higher bitrates. This is one reason a
lot of motion picture location sound is recorded at 24 bits (albeit at
48kHz).

Read this book:

Mastering Audio, Second Edition: The Art and the Science
by Bob Katz
Published by Focal Press [ISBN #0240808371]

This will tell you all you need to know about the subject. The short end of
the story is that you need a good room and good loudspeakers before you can
really do mastering properly. Even on a low budget, there's a lot you can do
to optimize your CD mastering, and Katz' book will shed some light and how
and why to do this.

Another good reference is this one:

The Mastering Engineer's Handbook
by Bobby Owsinski
Published by0 Artistpro [ISBN #0872887413]

The latter is more anecdotal, but it has some great interviews with many
different mastering engineers, explaining how they work and what tools they
use at their facilities.

--MFW

[Laurence Payne]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:12:28 -0800, Marc Wielage
wrote:

Secondly, when I say mastering I mean taking stereo mixes from whatever
sources, putting them together, adjusting eq, volume and whatever and
making a finished CD ready for duplication or replication.
------------------------------snip------------------------------

I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking: "in mastering,
should I work with WAV files at 44.1kHz 16-bit, or use higher-resolution
files?"

I think he may be talking about a particular brand of plugin effect?

[masteringhouse]

Originally Posted by ted hyland[_2_]

First off, let me apologize if this has been covered recently. I haven't
been paying attention to the group and I've forgotten how to check the
archives.

Secondly, when I say mastering I mean taking stereo mixes from whatever
sources, putting them together, adjusting eq, volume and whatever and
making a finished CD ready for duplication or replication.

I care more about what you are using, but if you want to spill a few
secrets on some settings or procedures, that's OK too.

Now, I'm in the box using ProTools and I've become attached to Waves, so
I'm looking to see what other people are doing.

Are you using an HD or LE system?

Personally I use a combination of outboard gear (both analog and digital) and insert these into a Pro Tools track. I also use a combination of different plug-ins that can be automated for a given track as well as a lot of the routing options available in PT for M/S processing and other things.