– how is music “remastered”

Question

How can an audio engineer take a thirty-forty year old song that was recorded on analog tape? How is the data extracted and processed?

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Answer 1

I love how long some of the ‘ELI5’ answers are.

Imagine the audio equivalent of color correcting film photography. So the original photos exist but a new recoloring can be done. Thats the jist of it.