Mastering in Music is a cutting-edge edited collection that offers twenty perspectives on the contexts and process of mastering.
This book collects the perspectives of both academics and professionals to discuss recent developments in the field, such as mastering for VR and high resolution mastering, alongside crucial perspectives on fundamental skills, such as the business of mastering, equipment design and audio processing.
Including a range of detailed case studies and interviews, Mastering in Music offers a comprehensive overview of the foremost hot topics affecting the industry, making it key reading for students and professionals engaged in music production.
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PART ONE Mastering: practice |
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1 The creative mastering studio |
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2 Surround + immersive mastering |
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3 Towards a definition of compression glue in mastering |
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4 Engineering authenticity: the aesthetics of DSP modelling in mastering plugins - |
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5 Mastering for streaming: exploring a new levelling standard |
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6 Mastering audio analysis: teaching the art of listening |
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PART TWO Mastering: music and people |
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7 Interview with Darcy Proper |
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8 `Past' masters, present beats: exponential sound staging as sample-based (re)mastering in contemporary hip hop practice |
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Michail Exarchos Aka Stereo Mike |
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10 Mastering success: a roundtable discussion with early to mid-career mastering engineers |
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11 Peak-Fi: have we reached the ultimate reproduction standards needed to make humans happy? |
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Part Three Mastering: future |
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12 The shifting discourse on audio mastering |
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13 Loudness - the sales gimmick |
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14 Audio mastering facing automation: the embracement of the human |
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15 Transformations and continuities in the mastering sector |
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16 Mastering in music: a conference, a discussion, and a `what-if - a manifesto for an encapsulated audio delivery format' |
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17 Signature mastering: new sound aesthetics in post-production and the new role of mastering |
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John-Paul Braddock is a UK based mastering engineer at Formation Audio and is the co-chair of the Audio Engineering Societys Mastering Group.
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a mastering engineer for MOTTOsound, teaches part time at York St John University, UK, and is the co-chair of the Audio Engineering Societys Mastering Group.
Jay Hodgson is a mastering engineer at MOTTOsound and a professor of popular music studies at Western University, Canada.
Matthew Shelvock made the transformation from session musician to mastering scholar, but is currently leading business affairs for Chillhop, the well-known lo-fi hip hop radio and label.
Professor Rob Toulson is a leading scholar in the field of music production and is the CEO of RTSixty Limited, the company behind music based applications such as variPlay, iDrumTune Pro and Drummer ITP.
