What does it mean when an album or song is “remastered”?
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Mastering is the last step of recording. A mastering engineer’s job is to stop the end listener from having to adjust volume and tone between tracks. So, they make a collection of tracks sound like an album.
They also meet technical requirements of the media the end user will be listening to. With different recording media there are different concerns. For example, with vinyl too much bass will cause the needle to jump the groove and high frequencies need to be amplified to properly cut a groove. There is a standard EQ applied to vinyl to compensate for these issues with the media. When a song meant for vinyl is remastered level and compression is redone from the original recording to take advantage of the new media.
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