Mastering is an art and a science. Mastering is the final creative and technical step prior to pressing a record album (CD, DVD, cassette, or other medium). Compare mastering to …

This article has been revised and updated from an editorial counterpoint which appeared in Pro Sound News, January 1997. Here’s a refreshing alternative perspective to what’s going on in the studio …

This instructional video describes the fastest way to use an equalizer to fix a “one note bass” problem in a recording. Flash! One of my new favorite equalizer plugins, DMG’s …

A U.K. engineer who discovered our web site wrote. I had a look at your web page and what a page! Exactly a page I have been looking for! Could …

Master the 2-channel art first Everyone is talking about multichannel sound. I have no doubt that well-engineered multi-channel recordings will produce a more natural soundfield than we’ve been able to achieve …

Use or Build your own Bitscope! Attention, Sherlock Holmes’s of the audio world. You can use an ordinary oscilloscope (20 MHz or better) to see the bit activity of your …

Here is how waveform distortion can cause time-base distortion: The top waveform represents a theoretically perfect digital signal. Its value is 101010, occuring at equal slices of time, represented by …

Dither is not the most important technical detail to learn about, but if you want to get your digital audio done just right, then you should learn about dither. Especially …

Digital recording is simple–all you do is peak to 0 dB and never go over! And things remain that simple until you discover one plugin or processor telling you a signal …

(includes a description of the K-System, an integrated system of metering and monitoring) Updated from the article published in the September 2000 issue of the AES Journal by Bob Katz A: …