Mastering (audio)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Back then the job entailed converting the music from half-inch tape to vinyl. I started putting my name on the dead wax on the first record, because I wanted to keep track of what I was doing. A lot of times, record companies did not give you credit on the records. It was a way for me to know that I actually mastered that record. It was also a way to tell that the record wasn't a reproduction made by a bootlegger."--"Herbie Was Here" (1998) by Chuck Miller |
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Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). In recent years digital masters have become usual, although analog masters—such as audio tapes—are still being used by the manufacturing industry, particularly by a few engineers who specialize in analog mastering.
Notable audio mastering engineers
- Brad Blackwood
- Greg Calbi
- Tony Dawsey
- P. A. Deepak
- Brian Gardner
- Chris Gehringer
- Kevin Gray
- Bernie Grundman
- Steve Hoffman
- Ted Jensen
- Bob Katz
- Emily Lazar
- Bob Ludwig
- Stephen Marcussen
- George Marino
- Randy Merrill
- Mandy Parnell
- George "Porky" Peckham
- Eric Pillai
- Shadab Rayeen
- Doug Sax
- H. Sridhar
- Ray Staff
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Howie Weinberg
- Leon Zervos
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