Automated Tonal Balance Enhancement for Audio Mastering Applications
Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis, Konstantinos Drossos, Andreas Floros, D.T.G. Katerelos · Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · 2013
Modern audio mastering procedures are involved with the selective enhancement or attenuation of specific frequency bands. The main reason is the tonal enhancement of the original / unmastered audio material. The aforementioned process is mostly based on the musical information and the mode of the audio material. This information can be retrieved from a listening procedure of the original stimuli, or the corespondent musical key notes. The current work presents an adaptive and automated equalization system that performs the aforementioned mastering procedure, based on a novel method of fundamental frequency tracking. In addition to this, the overall system is being evaluated with objective PEAQ analysis and subjective listening tests in real mastering audio conditions.