Just received THE BIBLE: Mastering Audio

After two months wait(?) I finally received Mastering Audio: The Art And The Science by Bob Katz. I've always been somewhat of a purist when it comes to this subject and having read many articles by Mr. Katz over the years, I've finally decided to get this book as a reference guide. Anyone else here have read it?

I will warn you, much of the book is a bit technical. There were many passages that either "went a bit over my head" or at least, were hard to translate in to practical application in my home studio.

Definitely agree with you on that. I should re read it now, its been awhile.

To me Katz's book was a lot easier and somehow "fluent" to read than Izhaki's book on mixing. I've read them both twice now, and even though I'm an amateur working with very modest equipment, and using very little time for this music hobby, I somehow feel
there was surprisingly few really new things to me in the books. Maybe that's just because
over twenty years with computer music has little by little increased my knowledge, even though my skills have remained feeble due to insufficient practice (is that english?).

On the other hand - some of the most technical/mathematical things are chinese to me, but then again, I'm not in the least interested in them and I don't think they're relevant to me.