Sound Advice On Mastering (Instant Pro) [Paperback]

Bill A. Gibson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1931140359 | ISBN-13: 978-1931140355

This edition of the popular InstantPro series brings you an in-depth look at the often misunderstood art of music mastering. Mastering is the final step between the recording studio and the manufacturing plant; it's where the tracks are optimized for level and EQ. In today's music marketplace, mastering is more important than ever and it's critical to have a mastering job that makes your CD compete with other commercial releases. Sound Advice on Mastering shows you the specific considerations involved in all aspects of the mastering process, from having a good monitoring system to using limiting properly to burning replication-ready CDs. Veteran Author Bill Gibson (The AudioPro Home Recording Course) guides you through the mastering process and gives you the information you need to make the right mastering decisions for your project, whether you master it yourself or send it to a dedicated mastering facility. In addition, this book comes with an audio CD demonstrating all the concepts described in the text. Don't let another music project out the door without reading Sound Advice on Mastering!

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Artistpro (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931140359
• ISBN-13: 978-1931140355
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,939,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My academic degree is in composition and arranging, which tends to influence my writing style toward the practical applications of technology in music. I get a big kick out of hearing from people who have been helped by my books. My aspirations in Junior High and High School were to become a recording engineer, so I read every book and magazine I could get my hands on. However, if I would have had someone tell me the stuff I write about today, when I was young, I would have been light years ahead in my early career.

Directly out of college I taught music in a college in Seattle for three years. I decided I would rather get out and do music so my wife (who I met while teaching college) and I formed a band and traveled for several years playing shows, clubs, and bars all over.

I taught recording classes for about 10 years while performing, which is where I began to develop a number of pragmatic explanations for complex recording tasks. Much of the material for my first books were a product of teaching these classes. In 1991, a buddy (Bob Sluys) and I produced "Killer Demos: Hot Tips and Cool Secrets for the Home Multitrack User. This video sold pretty well and started the machine in motion that would end up with my first book for MixBooks in 1996. Mike Lawson, the GM for MixBooks built a great library, which he ended up purchasing from Mix Magazine to start Artistpro.com. For Mike and Artistpro, I wrote several more books along with a complete online course, with online graded tests. Artistpro was eventually purchased by Thomson Publishing in Boston. Mike was acquired with the deal so I still work with him directly to build new tools for recordists around the world. So far, with Mike's help and my family's patience I have written more than 30 books about recording at the same time that I have produced many albums for Seattle artists.

I am currently with Hal Leonard Publishing. They represent the best in the publishing world and for me, the perfect culmination of a long road in the publishing business.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacks detailed content and specifics, July 9, 2006

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M. Feghali (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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I decided to purchase this book to gain some more insight into mastering techniques and theory. Have to say, I am really disappointed as I have spent my money for no real value.

A few pages on EQ and Compression is not enough for a Mastering instructional book.

The theory provided in this book could easliy have been found using Google.

For such a small book, there was far too much information about cables that could almost be confused as info-mercials with the convenient product recommendations.

Positively, there is a good summary on industry standards used for CD mastering.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Little Short and Generic, August 26, 2006

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James Shannon Bussey (Mississippi) - See all my reviews
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This book is somewhat short and generic, but for the price I shouldn't complain to much. If you are looking for something to assist you with mastering your audio, pass this book up and get one of the more expensive one on Amazon. On the other hand, if you have no idea what the mastering process is and you want to know as well as listen to examples of mastered and unmastered audio, buy this book.

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip it., January 6, 2010

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Lenny Dodge - See all my reviews
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You can google this information for nothing. A waste of money at any price.