miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
The current nonsense misuse of the word mastering is to sell more expensive services or to sound more important when you say you did it.
Who are you talking about...exactly?
You do realize that there are mastering engineers who were doing it 30-40 years ago, maybe more...and some are still doing it.
They evolved over the years...the process evolved...the term evolved with them.
They way you say it...it's as though you think everyone that masters these days, just started doing it a couple of months ago, and they're just making everything up.
If you're talking about people who offer mastering for $5...and who work out of Facebook, and the like...those are not mastering engineers.
You need to look at what the pros are doing currently, the ones who have big name clients, who do mastering in the modern sense...and they know more about mastering than whatever it is you're selling from 60 years ago.
You just keep selling some conspiracy theory kind of perspective...without ever actually saying anything specific. Like I said, you dodge specific questions and/or fail to provide specific answers to them....yet you try to come off like only you are in the know, about "something", which is pure vagueness, at best.