dave9199 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 (edited) A friend of mine just got some mastering software and it made me wonder if music from the 60's was mastered (I'm thinking of rock, not jazz) or if it started after that. Same with mixing. Anyone know? Edited October 5, 2005 by dave9199 Quote
Christiern Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 A friend of mine just got some mastering software and it made me wonder if music from the 60's was mastered (I'm thinking of rock, not jazz) or if it started after that. Same with mixing. Anyone know? ← All recordings are mastered before they can be manufactured for release. What do you mean by mastering? Mixing is something else. In the early years of stereo, there wasn't much one could do with two tracks. By the end of the 60s, before digital recording, we were using 24 tracks and there was separation, which lent itself to mixing. Sure beat overdubbing, but I always preferred catching a performance when it was made rather than tweaking one. A clinker or two in an otherwise spirited performance is, IMO, preferable to a super-polished everybody's-tired one. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 Before the advent of multi-tracking, meaning recording separate tracks at the same time which can then be mixed AFTER the session, most engineers mixed on the fly straight to mono and/or stereo. There was very little one could do after the fact. Christiern is right that all recordings have been "mastered" in a sense before being released. For something to be released on the standard 33 1/3RMP LP, for instance, you have to apply RIAA EQ standards to the final master tape before pressing to vinyl and probably some limiting and compression as well. Quote
WD45 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 Unless you are cuttin' a wax cylinder, that is! Or, the direct-to-disc thing might be another exception. Quote
dave9199 Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Posted October 5, 2005 So mastering has always been around? I was thinking of things like EQing and such. Maybe I need to get my terms straight. I work on a 4-track at homeand considered fiddling with the low, mid & high knobs mixing (this refers to each track indiviually). Mastering I though was a tweaking or more of a finished mix for polish. Quote
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