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RE: AFAIK copying an analog tape to digital is a transfer, not remastering.

close,

Yes, in the early days the job of the mastering engineer was to make the record sound as close as he could to the master tape but that changed.

Even back in the days of vinyl, guys like Doug Sax (who opened the Master Lab in 1967, the first company dedicated to mastering) purposely made the record sound different than the master tape by use of compression, EQ, etc. The idea was to make the final product (at the time, the vinyl record) sound "better" than the master tape. I call that "sweetening".

And you are right. In the digital age one could just make digital copies of the master tape and sell those but that almost never happens.

It also almost never happens when making CD's from digital recordings (digital master files).

The idea of making the final product sound "better' than the master tape has continued to this day.

Today it's still called "Mastering" (not to be confused with what mastering engineers did in the old days ie; make the record sound as much like the master tape as you can) and artists pay big money for "mastering" engineers to put the final touches on their master digital files.

Again, I call that "sweetening" because the old definition of mastering doesn't apply to a digital to digital transfer, but sweetening does.

I hope that made sense.

Tre'
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Edits: 05/09/17
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