Apropos of mastering:
1) Thanks to Jast for sharing those blogs
2) This is best analogy that I've ever encountered about what mastering is (and how it's different from mixing): Mastering is like Photoshop for audio.
3) Also, I was just ruminating about compression earlier today, and thought "Well, audio compression is a like a sponge, right? It squeezes the sound together... no, wait, that's not right." Um... turns out it is right. Whoda thunk?
3/6/2012 : Digital Music
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nyjm
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Re: 3/6/2012 : Digital Music
"You sound like the ghost of David Bowie." - SchlimminyCricket | it was a pleasure to burn | my website | Juliet's Happy Dagger
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Billy's Little Trip
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Re: 3/6/2012 : Digital Music
I've watched several of Ian Shepherd's vids and read a lot of his articles. Good stuff.
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Re: 3/6/2012 : Digital Music
Right up to where mistakes in the composition/arrangement of the image/mix or the use of sucky hardware are very hard or impossible to fix in Photoshop/mastering.nyjm wrote:2) This is best analogy that I've ever encountered about what mastering is (and how it's different from mixing): Mastering is like Photoshop for audio.