Improve the sound of your recordings with Audio Mastering: Essential Practices. Mastering is the art of optimizing recorded sound finding the ideal volume levels and tonal quality and insuring dataintegrity necessary to produce a professional-quality duplication and distribution-ready master. Audio Mastering: Essential Practices introduces the techniques and tools of audio mastering suitable forcommercial and home/project studio environments. Technical discussions address gear studio setup methodologies goals and other considerations for making tracks sound their best individually and in relationship to othertracks.The accompanying recording has audio examples that support two detailed case studies where readers can follow a mastering engineer's manipulations step by step.