Mastering Music at Home (Book/CD)

The Thomson Course Mastering Music at Home Book and CD give you all the information that is essential for putting the final professional "finish" on your audio: making sure your tone is correctly balanced, the dynamics are controlled, and the level is set properly. Mastering is the final stage of creating a piece of recorded music, before either releasing it on the web or duplicating it onto CD for distribution. While professional mastering engineers have expensive specialized equipment to help them with the mastering process, the latest generation of hardware and software tools available to home and project studio musicians can do a wonderful job of mastering audio releases at a fraction of the cost of commercial mastering houses.