Rafael Morgan
New member
Hey folks,
I hope you're all having a fine day.
Well, first, I'd like to ask you to don't get me wrong, ok? I'm not trying to be ironic or sarcastic here at all. There are just a few things about contemporary mastering that I don't quite understand.
I understand that mastering used to be an incredibly difficult and specialized task back in the vinyl/analog media days. I have no doubt about it.
However, I don't quite understand why people still look at mastering almost as a mystical thing nowadays. Isn't mastering a different thing now? I mean, I believe it requires considerably less specific and delicate skills nowadays, but people still look at it from an almost magical perspective, as it was some kind of wizardry.
Sure, as far as I understand it, it used to be something close to witchcraft in the past, but is it nowadays?
I know that it still requires well-trained ears, and well-trained ears require time to be acquired, but isn't mastering incredibly and considerably easier nowadays, at least from the technical point of view?
To sum up, I think that the general image that most people cultivate about mastering nowadays may be incoherent if compared to what it really is.
Anyway, I'm just a noob and I might be completely wrong, though.
What do you think? Could you enlighten me about this subject?
Regards,
Raf.
I hope you're all having a fine day.
Well, first, I'd like to ask you to don't get me wrong, ok? I'm not trying to be ironic or sarcastic here at all. There are just a few things about contemporary mastering that I don't quite understand.
I understand that mastering used to be an incredibly difficult and specialized task back in the vinyl/analog media days. I have no doubt about it.
However, I don't quite understand why people still look at mastering almost as a mystical thing nowadays. Isn't mastering a different thing now? I mean, I believe it requires considerably less specific and delicate skills nowadays, but people still look at it from an almost magical perspective, as it was some kind of wizardry.
Sure, as far as I understand it, it used to be something close to witchcraft in the past, but is it nowadays?
I know that it still requires well-trained ears, and well-trained ears require time to be acquired, but isn't mastering incredibly and considerably easier nowadays, at least from the technical point of view?
To sum up, I think that the general image that most people cultivate about mastering nowadays may be incoherent if compared to what it really is.
Anyway, I'm just a noob and I might be completely wrong, though.
What do you think? Could you enlighten me about this subject?
Regards,
Raf.