RE: It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but.........

"there's a helluva lotta shitty sounding recordings mastered by engineers. What's that tell you?"

There are three answers that come to mind. :-)

1. There are a lot of shitty mastering engineers
2. There are a lot of recordings that were so bad that there was nothing that could be done with them. (Mastering engineers use the phrase, "polishing a turd".)
3. There are a lot of producers and musicians who haven't a clue what constitutes good sound and they pay the engineers to produce what they want to hear, for example, "loud". (One could say that engineers who accommodate their customers have "sold out", but their phrases are "keeping my studio open" and "feeding my children".)

The real problem IMO is the customers who buy the shitty recordings. I learned very early to purchase recordings made by certain labels and certain engineers and avoid recordings made by other labels even I liked the music and the artist. If a recording was made by "Lewis Layton" or "Bob Fine" there was an extremely good chance it would be sonically excellent.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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Topic - Irony 101 - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 23:01:16 05/26/14 (26)

That was the best column in a year or more. Loved it. - Pjay 15:21:29 05/28/14 (25)

Let me expand .... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:49:00 05/28/14 (24)

to answer one of your questions.... - Tom Schuman 14:14:11 05/31/14 (0)

Art seems to prefer .... - Brian H P 16:55:11 05/29/14 (1)

RE: Art seems to prefer .... - bjh 19:51:03 05/29/14 (0)

Did JA listen to the Lector? - Ladok 11:06:04 05/29/14 (2)

Are you inferring that JA is... - Ozzie 17:38:33 05/29/14 (0)

RE: Did JA listen to the Lector? - John Atkinson 12:48:53 05/29/14 (0)

RE: Let me expand .... - rick_m 07:50:56 05/29/14 (2)

RE: Let me expand .... - bjh 09:58:27 05/29/14 (1)

RE: Let me expand .... - rick_m 11:54:54 05/29/14 (0)

RE: Let me expand .... - bjh 07:05:41 05/29/14 (14)

RE: Let me expand .... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 15:18:08 05/29/14 (13)

For me one thing has become clear - morricab 05:33:53 06/02/14 (7)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:53:43 06/02/14 (1)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - morricab 08:23:14 06/03/14 (0)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - rick_m 08:09:04 06/02/14 (4)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - morricab 08:27:20 06/03/14 (3)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - Tony Lauck 20:17:54 06/03/14 (1)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - morricab 13:35:39 06/05/14 (0)

RE: For me one thing has become clear - rick_m 13:16:53 06/03/14 (0)

RE: Let me expand .... - Tony Lauck 17:34:22 05/29/14 (4)

It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but......... - Rick W 22:48:12 05/29/14 (3)

RE: It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but......... - Tony Lauck 07:38:35 05/30/14 (2)

Funny, the one thing you didn't mention is......... - Rick W 09:18:35 05/30/14 (1)

You mean like - E-Stat 12:59:58 06/02/14 (0)

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RE: It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but......... - Tony Lauck 07:38:35 05/30/14 (2)

Funny, the one thing you didn't mention is......... - Rick W 09:18:35 05/30/14 (1)

You mean like - E-Stat 12:59:58 06/02/14 (0)

RE: It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but.........

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