From: Randy Hi Bob, Your website and posts on the audio messageboards have been a great help to me and my mixes and masters are definitely better having followed advice …
Monitor Selection
From: Jimmy Schepers Dear Bob Katz, I was pleased to read your article/interview on homerecording.be. Especially because I was one of the proud questioners. Your answer on the types of …
Monitor Calibration with K-System
Name: Richard Furch Message: Bob, I have a quick question after aligning my monitors for the K system you outline in your (outstanding) book. I’m a mixer though. I don’t …
MP3 Encoding and Quality
Name: Dan Humann Message: Hi Bob: Hopefully this will get to you! I purchased your i tunes music book and just finished reading it. Truly an awakening. The question is, …
Mixing gain structure and K-System levels with Buss Compression
From: Wayne Davis Hi Bob, I am working on a new RnB/Hip Hop project that we plan on mastering with you. I have been diligently using the K-System …
Nano, Nano! What is this +9 business?
Analog tape alignment. Is it too hot? From: Dana White +9 on GP 9, 499…BASF 911 Can you comment on why there are multiple reference levels. As I understand it, …
Nearfield Monitors for Mastering
I am currious why nearfields cant or shouldnt be used for mastering. Could they be used outside of the nearfield positioning? Nearfields were originally proposed as a way to deal …
Normalization
Normalization Basics Normalization is a DSP calculation, not a very nasty one, but it adds a minute amount of (probably imperceptible) distortion. But a little bit of imperceptible distortion accumulates …
Normalizing in Samplers after UV22?
From: James Trammell My comments are: Bob, I have some instruments I want to sample with my sampler. It has an AES input, so instead of using the cheap A …