Mastering Experiments, Part 1: Reverb

Published: April 7, 2005, 7:17 a.m.

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Loyal readers of In the Hands might reasonably ask: \\u201cPaul! Where the heck are you? What have you been up to?\\u201d Well, there are many answers to that \\u2014 preparing my McKnight fellowship application and visiting my parents in Colorado among them \\u2014 but the piano recordings have not been neglected. I just purchased a round of new software to really try to get my mastering process right. ("Mastering,\\u201d for those of you not in on the audio tech speak, is the process of finessing the sound quality of a recording after it\\u2019s made.)

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Today\\u2019s recording is first in a two-part audio explanation of what I\\u2019m doing.

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For those who are wondering, the software packages behind what you\\u2019ll hear are Logic Express and Ambience.

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