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The following section of
mauroandreolli.net contains
a few hints about the studio
in which I perform the
mastering and mixing
operations I am assigned,
whose name is das Ende der Dinge
(or dEdD, for
those who might not be
familiar with German). The
expression means “the end of
things”, referring to the
final stage of any music
production, which precedes
the printing of devices and
their release. The
inspiration for this name
was provided by a peculiar
case of meta tv-series:
within the Derrick episode
called Die Rolle seines Lebens
(1986) a serial whose
title is just
"Das Ende der Dinge"
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The primeval set up of the studio
dates back to 1997, when the first
official masterings for Polygram
Italia (Casino Royale, George
McAnthony) and Dischi del Mulo
(Ageo, Radiodervish) were done.
Since that Power Macintosh 8100 with
Digidesign hardware and as much as
4GB disk space, the set up has been
throughly updated several times. I
mention these obsolete and now fully
unusable facilities because for
someone they may have the same
effect as when coming across a
Trabant car from the seventies (to
keep to the German topic). Together
with the images below, which may
give some colour to the page, this
is the only digression on the
equipment I allow myself, as there’s
nothing more sterile than to list
the gear, as if it could guarantee
of a given quality standard. What
matters and what may be crucial is
not the facility herself but the
procedure that defines its use case
by case. It is for enthusiasts that
equipment often superseed the goal.
  
However, it is my habit to
illustrate in full detail the
technical implications of the
ongoing work to musicians as well as
to producers, and in this context
it'll be possible to get deeper
insight not only into the operations
carried out, but also into the
features of the configurations
applied. Besides the audio
procedures it'll moreover be a
pleasure to satisfy the curiosity of
those music technology enthusiasts,
who may want to get a deeper insight
into converters, tube-based
outboard, parallel processing
and so forth.
To be located half way between
Brianza, the italian music district,
and Bavaria, sure has been of
capital importance in the
development and improving of the
operative methods used by das Ende der Dinge.
The substantial equidistance from
the central hubs of music training
and production has ever since
supported a different approach,
based not on conventional procedures
which were establishing, but on the
development of independent and new
techniques, nevertheless constantly
keeping track of the international
commercial and artistic context.
Using ready-made solutions allows to
deal with a limited number of
variables, whereas the habit of
searching for solutions unique to
each specific issue allows to reach
a much larger adaptability, which
often is decisive in achieving
the best possible result.
This lead dEdD to jump the
gun both in audio processing as
such, and in organization planning.
After all, reconnaissance is part of
the game when entering domains which
were mostly unexplored as it was the
case for mastering more than twenty
years ago. The equivocal concept of
online
mastering which is so
widespread today, has ever since had
an independent evolution at das Ende der Dinge,
being the natural continuation of
the working methods adopted by dEdD
from the beginning, when digital
audio tapes and other storage device
were traveling between Italy and
Europe by private courier.
As explained more precisely
elsewhere on this website, das Ende der Dinge
is certified by Apple Usa for
creating and providing Apple Music
high resolution tracks which are
labeled by the badge "Apple Digital
Masters".
TIDAL,
Amazon Music Unlimited and
Apple Music also offer the
immersive listening
experience allowed by the
Dolby Atmos Music
technology, according to
many observers the most
important innovation of the
last few decades that will
revolutionize the way we
enjoy the music.
For further information about this
format and many more details on
mastering and mixing please check
the different subpages of
mauroandreolli.net or else get
directly to the contacts
and write me, bye! M.
  
      
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