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RE: Opening worm cans is a specialty of mine!

If you are talking about mastering engineers, then at least the better ones strive to have systems that measure flat at their listening position. Peaks and dips may sound "good" depending on where they are located, and that's the problem. When a recording is played on different speakers or in a different room there will be peaks and dips in a different places and the mastered version won't translate.

There is a lot of manipulation in studio equipment. For example the calibration curves supplied with my AKG C451 microphones show a rising high frequency response. Back when they were made this was considered a good thing, presumably to counter the effect of rolled off tape machines, high frequency air loss, or whatever.


Tony Lauck

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


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