From: Mark Schiffelbein My comments are: Although I have read many articles in the past about baking old master tapes, I never need to use the technique up …
Balanced and Unbalanced Interfacing
From: Allen Minor I just purchased a Sony wireless microphone system. I have a Sony DCR-TRV900 digital video camcorder. The system includes a WRT-805A body pack transmitter with ECM-44BMP microphone, …
Balanced versus Unbalanced Connections
Why some mastering engineers insist on using unbalanced lines… Do any of the engineers on the list use balanced interfaces at all? >Balanced is for Mics and Telephones, wrote Dave …
Bass Problems
Deltaforce wrote: hello, Bob. What I was taught in mastering, try to aim for a rolloff at 25 Hz or so and a rolloff at roughly 18 Khz. That will …
Bit Depth in DAW
Dear Mr. Katz, I read an article about mastering in a german recording magazine in which the author recommended to change incoming material with 16 bit into a 32 bit …
Bits, isn’t 20-bit good enough?
From: “Arksun” Hiya Bob, How’s tings. I was wondering whether you could settle a long running argument between myself and a producer friend of mine. My friend Andrew …
Blinded by Science? A letter from someone who might be too hung up on the importance of the number
Hi! You’re web site is a real gold mine of information. It can sound quite technical since I’m only starting out my little home DAW (on a powerful Pentium II). …
Blowing a Channel on a Compressor or Mixer
I know it’s possible to blow a channel on a mixer, but is it possible to blow a channel on a analog compressor by pushing the signals gain until it’s …
Bit Depth Exporting for Mastering
Hey Bob! Ok, so here is the breakdown. Half of the songs (5 of 10) were recorded 24 bit. Half are 16 Bit. all varying sample rates (I was all …
Bass-heavy or Bass-light Mixes: Which is easier to master?
From: John Campoli Hi Bob, I’ll simplify my question regarding my mixes. Regarding bottom end uncertainty, which is easier to deal with on your end, bass heavy or bass light, …