ANALOG MASTERING IN AUDIO PRODUCTION
WHAT IS ANALOG MASTERING?
At the analog mastering works the mastering engineer in audio production with external hardware (sg analog hardware). The signal to be processed is transmitted via high quality AD converter Channels sent to external devices. Artifacts can be partially circumvented by using analog devices. The principal disadvantage of analog technology compared to digital technology is its reproducibility (the so-called "total recall"). Due to the large number of buttons and rotary controls, which are often not rasterized, it is extremely time-consuming to restore the settings of the processed audio material in analog mastering in order to enable a uniform sound for all versions. In many cases, this only takes place with time-consuming photographs of the device settings in the mixer.
“Pure” analogue mastering is actually no longer done in the studio these days. Hybrid solutions are used today. This means that the delivered audio material is already available digitally after mixing. Using the DAW, it is sent to the analog devices via the AD converter and, after processing, is recorded again in the DAW and ends up as a stereo master. This has the advantage that the audio material can be digitally prepared or post-processed, regardless of the analog processing steps in the online mastering.
ADVANTAGES OF ANALOG MASTERING
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DISADVANTAGES OF ANALOG MASTERING
As a disadvantage, the difficult reproducibility of settings is the main problem with the mischi and mastering with analog hardware during the audio production. a vg total recall is difficult here. This can be remedied by taking photos of the settings on the devices and doing the tedious re-creation if something ever needs to be changed. Which may well be the case in the case of the digitalization of the music industry.
IN WHAT FORMAT IS ANALOG MASTERING?
As a rule, the format (as long as it is uncompressed) doesn't play a big role. Bit depth and are more important sample rate. Usually you play titles that... mixing process have passed through in at least 24 bit and 44,1 khz. A higher resolution and bit depth is possible and even desired, since you always work with the best resolved version in mastering. The final output format is only determined and played out after mastering.
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