Mastering Course
Length: 15 hrs (3 hours per day)
Overview
Taking a dive inside the world of mastering from a technical, as well as an artistic, point of view, this course goes through every step along the way, from when a project reaches a mastering house, to when it gets back into the artist's hands. Through a series of intense hands-on practice and class exercises, students will gain the knowledge and confidence to be.
Syllabus
Theory of Sound
• Origin of Sound
• Sound parameters
• The Human Hearing
Digital Audio Theory
• Sampling: Sampling Rates, Aliasing
• Bit Resolution, Truncation
• Converters: Types of ADC and DAC
• Dither vs. UV-22
Equalization (EQ)
• Types
• Paramaters
• EQ Exercises
Compression
• Types
• Paramaters
• Compression Exercises
Specialized Hardware
• Types
• Connections
Specialized Software
• Types of Plug-ins
• Functions
Techniques on:
• Normalization
• Limiting
• Maximization
• Soft Limiting
The Playlist
The PQ Codes
CD Replication