RE: there is SOMETHING about LP playback

Posted by Tre' (P) on September 22, 2024 at 08:30:19

In Reply to: there is SOMETHING about LP playback posted by hifitommy on September 21, 2024 at 14:59:26:

"digital mastering is a special skill and not the same as for vinyl"

You just said a mouth full.

Mastering use to mean one thing but now it means something else.

In the old days the mastering engineer had one job, to make the LP sound as much like the master tape as possible. This is not an easy task. There is sonic degradation evolved in the process of cutting the lacquer, platting the lacquer and eventually pressing the vinyl record. A mastering engineer needed to know his equipment well and understand what those sonic losses will be. He needed to compensate for them to minimize their effect and have the final product (the record) sound as much like the master tape as possible. He was a guy in a white lab coat and not part of the creative team.

Then guys like Doug Sax came along and said that they could make the record "sound better" than the master tape. I call this "sweetening". The final tweaking of compression, EQ, etc. to "polish" the mix. So guys like Doug were doing this in addition to the actual mastering required when making LPs.

Mastering for digital (because there is no sonic degradation evolved in the process of copying a digital file to a digital file) is just the "sweetening"/"final polishing" part.

Tre'

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RE: there is SOMETHING about LP playback - Tre' 08:30:19 09/22/24 (2)

if ONLY - hifitommy 11:19:33 09/22/24 (1)

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RE: there is SOMETHING about LP playback

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