Mastering your audio can be an elusive art of sonic wizardry but
can have the most dramatic effect on your finished project.
Steinberg’s WaveLab 8 can solve many problems to enhance the
quality of your recordings.
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Mastering Audio with WAVELAB 8
by GREG ONDOField Marketing Manager ~ Steinberg North
America
JUNE 2013 EDITION
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< Meters & Display Views in WaveLab 8
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“How can I have consistency from track to track level-wise and
sonically on my CD?”WaveLab has great tools to make consistent
sounding recordings. Mixes evolve over time with different
equipment, personnel and skills leaving an album sounding
disjointed. The included Voxengo Curve EQ can analyze the sonic
fingerprint of a recording and apply the missing frequen-cies to
other recordings in the project. Levels between tracks can be
matched easily as well so that different tracks aren’t louder or
softer using the meta normalizer. This consistency will make your
recordings stand out from the crowd.
“How can I remove a cough from a live concert recording in a
delicate soft passage?”Most audio editors can easily edit audio by
cutting copying and pasting. When these edits occur it edits all of
the frequencies cutting out the lows, mids, and highs. WaveLab’s
unique spectrum editor allows for elements within an audio file to
be removed without affecting other frequencies. This allows the
cough to be removed without affecting the string basses or violin
frequencies.
“How can I deliver my finished audio recording?”WaveLab is the
ideal tool for delivering your audio as a redbook audio CD, DDP,
data CD/DVD, MP3, flac, surround or high resolution stereo DVD-A,
podcast or via SoundCloud. WaveLab is the best solution for
delivering the audio in all relevant file formats with metadata
support.
“How can I really see what is going on in my audio?”The views
and metering found in WaveLab 8 is second to none. There are many
ways to view the audio with a R-128 loudness compliant loudness
display, spectrum view and #D spectrum analysis. Meters include the
phasescope, level meter, loudness meter, spectroscope,
spec-trometer, bit-meter, oscilloscope and wavescope. It truly
gives a unique insight into the audio that can easily resolve
problems.
“How can I get my recording as loud as a commercial
release?”There are many processing functions in WaveLab to achieve
the “hearing money through the speakers sound.” WaveLab comes with
many mastering specific plug-ins such as multi-band compression,
spa-tial plug-ins, parametric EQs, limiters, and loudness
normalizer with R-128 in 32-bit floating point resolution. The
audio can sound loud, punchy and present while still retaining
natural dynamics with WaveLab’s pristine audio engine.
