From Demo to Delivery

Chapter 7

Putting the Album Together

Bob Katz

In This Chapter

■   Introduction

■   How to Put an Album in Order

□   The Odd Man Out

□   The Right Kind of Ending

■   Spacing the Album

■   PQ Coding

□   PQ Offsets

□   Spaces and PQ (Track) Coding

□   Hiding Information in the Gap

□   Red Book Limits

□   Standalone CD Recorders

□   Hidden Tracks

■   Editing

□   The Tale of the Head and Tail

•   Natural Anticipation

•   Tail Noise Cleanup

•   Fade-Outs

•   Adding Tails

□   Adding Room Tone

•   Repairing Bad Edits

■   Leveling the Album

•   Context-Based Leveling

□   Everything Louder Than Everything Else

■   Further Reading

In this chapter, Bob Katz speaks about the way in which a collection of seemingly disparate songs can be placed together by ...