The Mastering Engineer’s Handbook (pdf)

Description

Mastering used to be the process of turning a collection of songs into an album by
making them sound like they belong together in tone, volume, and timing
(spacing between songs). Mastering nowwadays is the process fine-tuning the level, frequency balance,
and metadata of a track in preparation for distribution.It’s already been 16 years since the first edition of The Mastering Engineer’s
Handbook came out, and boy, have things changed. It’s safe to say that there’s
been a mighty revolution in the mastering world, with old technologies replaced
and new ones continually evolving. Gone are the days of tape machines (for the
most part), and soon even the CD will be a thing of the past.