In this week’s Audio Premium content, Bobby Owsinski brings us the second of two tutorials on do-it-yourself mixing — this time looking at such topics as editing, fades, spreads, exporting and encoding. Bobby is the author of many best-selling audio books including The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook.

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“In the last tutorial we introduced mastering and a couple of its basic operations, level and frequency balance. This time we’ll cover some equally important but often overlooked elements, namely editing, spreads, and exports. Everyone but mastering engineers thinks that making a track sound better is the only job of mastering, but these other operations are mission-critical for a great product. Let’s take a look.”

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Table of Contents

• Editing
• Fades
• Fade-Ins
• Fade-Outs
• Other Edits
• Spreads
• Export
• Multiple Masters
• Master Verification
• MP3 Encoding
• MP3 Encoding Tips
• The Encoder
• Bit Rate
• Bit Rate Settings
• Constant vs. Average vs. Variable Bit Rate
• Other Settings
• Exporting for iTunes

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