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Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Overview of Mastering and the Typical Session

Overview of Mastering

Goals of Mastering

Role of the Mastering Engineer

Choose an Engineer Based on Genre?

Who Needs Mastering?

Don’t Master Your Own Mixes

Balance of Benefit and Sacrifice

Creativity in Mastering

Mastering Is an Art

Typical Mastering Session

Attended/Unattended Sessions

Acoustics and Monitoring

2 Do-It-Yourself Guide for Basic Mastering

The Most Basic CD Mastering

Issues with Such a Basic Approach

MP3 Encoding Without Other Processing

Selecting a Digital Audio Workstation

Basic Mastering Processing Chain

Processing Packages

Basic Equalizer

Basic Compression

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