CD Mastering: Reel to Reel Recording

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For Expert Village, I'm Kurt Glaser at KGB Studios. Well now that we've got all the tracks recorded, we've also have them mixed down. We need to find out in the final steps how to master a CD. So, we're going to take a peek at some software that we actually use to master that right now. Okay, very good. Now, we've got the one session recorded. We've mixed down four or six or, actually in this case, seven tracks of audio into. What we're going to now do is bring it up and see if there's any pops or glitches or anything like that. So we'll bring that file up. Change the view here real quickly and here is that song there. So then we'll open it up. It builds the peaks and then here's the actual song of the seven tracks that I've recorded, that I've added a pre-fade and a post-fade at the very end of the song over here. And now we have the entire piece in wave form. What I'll tend to do at this juncture is, since I've captured it at 48, 16-bits stereo, I can now actually isolate a single channel here like this or do both channels, and edit down at an incredible granularity here to a very small piece of the wave form itself. This is the harmonics that I played just before the song started and then we go into the actual first chords, with the shaker sounds right in here as well that you can see. You can, again, highlight just a small little section and drill it down amazingly accurately and just take small portions of the wave form and change that, delete it, you can ripple effect, you can do all sorts of things with this program. It's a great program. I am very satisfied and it works beautifully with everything I've done. Once you're satisfied with the track as a whole, I would then go back to the very beginning of the track and I would master the tape at this point and save it as a wave file. So what we'll do is we'll go through and "save as" and now we'll tell it to save it as a particular type of file. And, in this case, we're going to save it to the stereo format, 16-bit stereo, PCM, which is pulse code modulation, and then we'll actually save the file at that point. And that is the way you actually master a file.

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