Professional Audio Mixing and Mastering

 Aria Mastering and Robotic Arms

DID YOU KNOW that Aria Mastering uses Robotic Arms?

The final step of music production is Aria Mastering. Stereo mixing is the process of balancing a song's stereo mix and optimizing it for different media formats. Both creativity and technology are involved in mastering. In other words, being creative while using technical expertise. It involves separating yourself from the individual parts of a song and looking at it as a whole. 

Aria Mastering usually uses robotic arms to outboard mastering gear based on one of the five presets you can select. These five presets are:

A – Moderate: Best suited to dynamic mixes, such as acoustic or classical songs

B – Loud: (Default Level) Standard modern mix with moderate compression

C – Louder: Best for balanced mixes that have already tastefully used compression; works great for loud genres like hip-hop or EDM

D – Loud/Safe: Best for softer songs that need to be loud; it’s sort of a hybrid between A and B for a balance between loudness and dynamics

E – Extra Dynamic: Suited for a cappella, delicate acoustic or classical recordings, dainty film scores, etc.

Based on their resemblance to human arms, robotic arms are usually mounted on a base. The arm is composed of multiple joints that act as axes for movement. The more flexible a robotic arm is, the more rotary joints it has.

Today, robotic arms of all types are used at all levels of manufacturing, from minutely detailed circuit board assembly to large-volume heavy industries, such as automotive production lines, as well as in a wide range of 'pick and place' (conveyor belt) applications.

Brief History

Robotic Arms

In 1961, Unimate introduced the first industrial robotic arm, and it subsequently evolved into the PUMA arm. In 1963, the Rancho arm was designed; Minsky’s Tentacle arm appeared in 1968, Sceinman’s Stanford arm in 1969, and MIT’s Silver arm in 1974. Aird became the first cyborg human with a robotic arm in 1993.  In 2000, Miguel Nicolalis redefined possible man-machine interactions when he implanted a cerebral implant in owl monkeys that interacted both locally and at a distance with robotic arms. Robotic arms are the end-effectors of robotic systems, and the da Vinci Surgical System makes its surgical debut using robotic arms. Despite their potential advantages, robotic arms have certain limitations, despite the computer-controlled master-slave system. Several potential solutions to the drawbacks of current robotic surgical systems are being investigated in robotics.

Aria Mastering

Mastering engineer Colin Leonard (Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Mastodon) developed Aria at his studio, SING Mastering, in Atlanta. The Aria process is a unique hybrid digital-analog approach, using the same outboard equipment Leonard utilizes.

Conclusion

Aria Mastering is undoubtedly pushing the limits beyond automated online mastering. There is still no alternative for a true human engineer, but those things are more expensive and busy, so the average emerging artist would probably settle for letting a computer do the work. Read More.

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