Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 28, 2006 08:05 AM
Although you can create a rough master with it, as a professional sound engineer, working with audio for a living, It sadly lacks real time processing capabilities (awesome app though, very good for audio editing tasks!).
When mastering, metering is very important, you need to be able to keep an eye on the overall level and the level of gain reduction being applied by a dynamics processor, so you can be sure that you're not clipping or squashing the signal too much by making it too 'loud' (like most music these days, sadly). Making sure the overall level does not exceed -0.2dBFS is generally regarded as a sort of standard in the audio world as some CD players and other gear will clip/distort at -0.1 or 0dBFS.
Now if we could pipe the output of Audacity into Jamin.... we'd have a superb mastering solution! When using an acoustically treated room and the right monitoring setup of course...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 28, 2006 08:05 AMWhen mastering, metering is very important, you need to be able to keep an eye on the overall level and the level of gain reduction being applied by a dynamics processor, so you can be sure that you're not clipping or squashing the signal too much by making it too 'loud' (like most music these days, sadly). Making sure the overall level does not exceed -0.2dBFS is generally regarded as a sort of standard in the audio world as some CD players and other gear will clip/distort at -0.1 or 0dBFS.
Now if we could pipe the output of Audacity into Jamin.... we'd have a superb mastering solution! When using an acoustically treated room and the right monitoring setup of course...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
Warm regards.
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