what’s actually meant when an album is re-released as “remastered”
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*As per /u/Eightohm’s response below, my post here is largely talking about mixing rather than mastering. *
When a song is recorded, typically each instrument is recorded separately, as are the vocals. If there are multiple singers, each would ideally have their own microphone, and end up with their own recorded track.
The point of all this is to give the most versatility possible for the next part of the process.
Once that’s done, the artist sits down in a studio, and those various tracks are mixed together to create the final ‘mastered’ track or mix, which is what ends up on the CDs, vinyls, spotify, what have you.
If a song is Remastered, it means they go back to the individual recordings of the instruments and vocals, and re-create, re-mix the master typically slightly differently. A certain instrument might be more pronounced than it was before in the mix, or the equalization on the track will be different, or…well anything really. The point is the resultant track will be a different interpretation than the original.
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