Apple's exciting new Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) initiative, introduced in early 2012, introduces new possibilities for delivering high-quality audio. For the first time, record labels and program producers are encouraged to deliver audio materials to iTunes in a high resolution format, which can produce better-sounding masters. In iTunes Music, author and world-class mastering engineer Bob Katz starts out with the basics, surveys the recent past, and brings you quickly up to the present where the current state of digital audio is bleak. Katz explains the evolution of standards for dynamic range through the present and with implications for the future. He details the new methods that Apple is developing to accept high resolution audio and shows step by step how audio engineers and producers can take advantage of them. This book is designed for all those dealing with sound, from sound engineers to music industry executives and musicians and those aspiring to all these roles. This book will help you understand the issues around delivering high-quality environment and get all your facts straight for when you encounter resistance to good sound. Topics covered include: Contrasting the production of CD albums with iTunes albumsHigh Resolution audioDitheringDistortion (and how to avoid it)Lossy CodingLoudness MeteringSound Check and how it affects our production techniquesApple's tools for Mastered for iTunes Foreword by renowned mastering engineer Bob Ludwig. Join the forums at www.digido.com/iTunes, for the latest information and discussions!

In an easy-to-grasp, holistic manner Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science, Third Edition unravels the technical mysteries that regularly challenge audio engineers. Including practical tips and real world experiences, Bob Katz explains the technical detail of the subject in his informative and humorous style. Completely reorganized to focus on workflow, this third edition details mastering by providing a step-by-step approach to the process. First covering practical techniques and basic theory, this industry classicalso addresses advanced theory and practice. The book’s new approach is especially suitable to accompany a one- or two-term course in audio and mastering.

Completely rewritten and organized to address changes that will continue to influence the audio world, this third edition includes several new chapters addressing the influence of loudness measurement and assessment and provides explanation of how mastering engineers must integrate loudness measurement and PLR assessment in their mastering techniques.

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science, Third Edition also includes the newest approaches to equalization, monitor response measurement and correction, the psychoacoustics of clipping, an extended discussion of restoration and noise reduction techniques, an extended set of listening examples, and an updated chapter on surround mastering including coverage of Pure Audio BluRay.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preparation

Chapter 1- No mastering engineer is an island

Chapter 2- connecting it together

Chapter 3- An Earientation session

Chpater4- Word lengths and dither

Chapter 5- Decibels: Not for Dummies

Chapter 6- Monitor quality

Part 2 Mastering Techniques

Chapter7- Putting the album together

Chapter8- Equalization

Chapter 9- Macrodynamics

Chapter 10- Downward Process

Chapter 11- The Lost process

Chapter 12- Noise reduction

Chapter 13-Top processors

Part 3- Advanced Theory and Practice

Chapter 14- How to make better recordings in the 21 century

Chapter 15- Monitor set up and calibration

Chapter 16- Additional Mastering Techniques

Chapter 17- Analog and digital processing

Chapter18- How to achieve depth and dimension in recording , mixing and mastering

Chapter19 Surround sound mastering

Chapter 20- High sample rates

Chapter 21- Jitter

Chapter 22- Technical tips and techniques

Part 4- In conclusion

Chapter23- Education Education Education

Appendices

1- Radio Ready

2- the tower of Babel

3- Preparing tapes and files

3- Premastering for vinyl

5- Tape label

log

6- Conversations

7- I feel the need for speed

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I feel the need for capacity

9- Footnotes on the K- system

10 Recommended reading, Test CD's

11- Biography: Eric James

12-Biography: Bob Katz

13- Glossary

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