Audio Mastering is the ideal mastering compendium for every audio
engineer, producer, media technician or even ambitious home studio
enthusiast who masters with a PC workstation, or wants to begin
producing their own masters. It provides one of the most complete
works on digital audio basics and professional mastering techniques
available today. This comprehensive compendium of digital mastering
knowledge on three DVD-ROMs contains a huge range of strategies, tips
and hints on using computers to create the best sounding masters
possible. Audio Mastering provides support for and extends existing
knowledge for engineers looking for a way of extending existing
knowledge. Audio Mastering includes full English, German, French and
Spanish versions.

With more than 180 minutes of video on Volume I, and more than 160
minutes of video on each Volume II and Volume III Audio Mastering
offers comprehensive knowledge about digital techniques and skilled
handling of digital audio data using WaveLab to attain the best
possible results in professional mastering. Fundamentals such as PCM,
jitter and dithering are covered extensively, as well as other areas
such as such as workflow optimization and data preparation for
creating master media. Audio Mastering also offers invaluable
strategies for creative sound processing, with real-world applications
and practical examples that support learning.

About the Author

Friedemann Tischmeyer has worked in audio mastering and mixing for
more than 15 years. An engineer for countless well-known artists and
the owner of his own independent mastering facility, Friedemann has
also published two Tutorial DVD-ROMs, 'Internal Mixing' and two
extremely well-received books 'Audio Mastering with PC Workstations'
and 'Internal Mixing'.

Contents - Vol. II

(cont. chapter I: Basics)

* Loudness and peak levels
* What are interleaved sample overs?
* Headroom for encoding
* Normalization
* Judging loudness
* Reference values for loudness
* PCM - the principle of digital audio
* Basics of bit resolution
* What is truncation?
* Sample rate basics
* Sample rate conversion (SRC)
* All about dithering
* What is jitter?
* AES/EBU & S/P-DIF
* Wordclock and houseclock
* What is DC offset?
* ISRC / EAN
* Redbook & DAO/TAO

(Chapter II: Workflow)

* Optimal workflow
* Phase 1: Preparation
* Batch processing


Minimum System Requirements

Mac OS X v10.4
Power Mac G4 1,87 GHz
256 MB RAM
Display resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
CoreAudio compatible audio hardware is required
Quicktime 7.1.3
DVD drive required for installation

Windows XP Home or XP Professional
Intel / AMD 2 GHz
256 MB RAM
Display resolution 1024x768 pixels
Windows MME compatible audio hardware is required
Quicktime 7.1.3
DVD drive required for installation

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