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Mastering live concert recording
After several years of recording concerts by a pretty good amateur orchestra,using a Sony PCM-R500 DAT machine (2-tracks), I’ve been asked by the orchestra to make a CD for sale. I’ve been using CoolEdit for years and now Audition, but never for creating a CD master. The CD is almost ready to go out for replication (tracks selected, liner notes written, cover designed, etc), but I need help in mastering it.
Is there a tutorial or book you can recommend? Or even some basic tips on what might be possible with Audition. So far, I’ve added fade-ins and fade-outs and normalized the tracks to 90%.
Thanks
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Everyone who does audio has their own way of doing final mix … Audition isn’t a mastering program yet it will give you darn good final mix … For me, once I have a mix that is EQ’d then I will use the hard limit feature which brings the stuff in the bottom closer to the peaks and limits the peaks to your desired settings … One thing that is very inportant is if your using a home stereo system to mix on you already have problems, if this the case I would look into a pair of studio monitor speakers … I like to hard limit +6db, depending on my clips volume) with a max limit to -1db, but in todays digital world most everything in limited to -.1db … A 2 second lead in on each clip is what I personally like to use and in most cases is pretty much the standard … OK, Emmet it’s your turn ……. WILLIE
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Everyone who does audio has their own way of doing final mix … Audition isn’t a mastering program yet it will give you darn good final mix … For me, once I have a mix that is EQ’d then I will use the hard limit feature which brings the stuff in the bottom closer to the peaks and limits the peaks to your desired settings … One thing that is very inportant is if your using a home stereo system to mix on you already have problems, if this the case I would look into a pair of studio monitor speakers … I like to hard limit +6db, depending on my clips volume) with a max limit to -1db, but in todays digital world most everything in limited to -.1db … A 2 second lead in on each clip is what I personally like to use and in most cases is pretty much the standard … OK, Emmet it’s your turn ……. WILLIE
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Everyone who does audio has their own way of doing final mix … Audition isn’t a mastering program yet it will give you darn good final mix … For me, once I have a mix that is EQ’d then I will use the hard limit feature which brings the stuff in the bottom closer to the peaks and limits the peaks to your desired settings … One thing that is very inportant is if your using a home stereo system to mix on you already have problems, if this the case I would look into a pair of studio monitor speakers … I like to hard limit +6db, depending on my clips volume) with a max limit to -1db, but in todays digital world most everything in limited to -.1db … A 2 second lead in on each clip is what I personally like to use and in most cases is pretty much the standard … OK, Emmet it’s your turn ……. WILLIE
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Audition is actually very commonly used for mastering. Much more common than most people realize, especially in all-digital mastering houses. Audition, Sound Forge and Wavelab are the big three. And Audition does just as well as any.
There are, however, plug-ins that add a great deal of flexibility. If you’d like to add a mastering plug-in, IMO, iZotope Ozone 3 cannot be beat!
Now, even if you don’t care to spend the money, there’s a free download from iZotope that is OUTSTANDING reading. As far as I’m concerned, this is one of the best audio resources in existance.
https://izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/OzoneMasteringGuide.PDF
Even though it is designed to be used with Ozone, there’s a HUGE amount of info that applies to audio, in general. Read the whole thing (skim the Ozone-specific parts).
Everyone here would be wise to read this PDF. It’s just absolutely superb, and pretty easy to understand.
Emmett
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