How does one go about remastering a song? Is it the case that some skilled musicians will attempt to replicate the original instrumental lines, while leaving the vocals alone? I’m thinking particularly of artists like Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin where the sound is so distinctive but the older recordings can be poor quality. How do you keep that same feel in the music albeit with a better quality recording? And do artists tend to remaster their own songs or is it done by independent parties?
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* There are three main things that happen to produce a record:
* A song is recorded
* The song is mixed
* The song is mastered
* Mastering is the process of taking the mixed recording and preparing it for the medium that is being released.
* Back in the day that was vinyl records.
* Then it became cassette tapes
* then compact discs (CDs)
* then digital audio streams.
* Mastering doesn’t really do anything to change the feel of the song, it just makes small tweaks to the levels and frequencies to make sure it sounds right.
* Re-masters are essentially the same thing.
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