This dissonance between how we think we like to be entertained and the brute realities of what sells is even more pronounced in the music business. The word has become so meaningless. Whatever mastering a pumpkin might involve lipstick? Hull came into the industry in , and over the years heavyweight artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Donald Fagen, Dave Matthews and Sting have entrusted him with putting the final shimmer on their records.
So coming from Hull, a brief lament about how the name of his craft is being taken in vain is slightly heartbreaking to hear. Its gratuitous overuse today is testament to the huge commercial dividends the music industry has reaped from the expression, especially in its heyday of splashing it around record stores in the s and early s.
For many consumers, shelling out for a subtly retweaked version of their favorite record might seem a baffling waste of earnings. Earlier this year, when the U. Fiddling around at the fringes of a finished album might exhilarate the audiophiles, but for the average, untrained music fan, does it really have much of an impact? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to this is very much Yes , no matter how tone-deaf you might believe yourself to be.
The nuances in EQ and incremental adjustments in remastered records have more of an effect on you than you might think — in fact, gradually accumulated over the decades, those increments have had a tectonic influence on the whole landscape of popular music and how we perceive it.
In the case of A Love Supreme, remastering was essential to even out differences in volume between the original record and the new tracks. McMaster has a custom valve-driven analog compressor welded into his mixing board, which he uses to balance the overall volume on a track.
He uses equalization, or EQ, to emphasize or reduce certain audio frequencies. Noise reduction, or NR, surgically removes hums and sibilance. The process is also an act of preservation. For many albums, the original master tapes were so valuable that engineers made what's called a production master—a second version that could be played constantly for duplication.
Overuse often degraded production masters, which is why many compact discs from the s, which used them as a template, have compromised bass and tinny sounds at certain frequencies. So remastering engineers go back to the original tapes. To make the vinyl edition of A Love Supreme, McMaster sends the new first-generation remaster through his mixing console into a huge lathe, which carves the mold for the records.
As the needle scores the blank acetate disc, webs of discarded material shoot through a tube into a jar, discarding the junk while preserving the mojo, mistakes and all. What does 'digitally remastered' mean? When music is remastered, flaws present in the original recording like bad edits, microphone noises, hiss are removed. It's intended to provide a cleaner, sharper, and more refined listening experience.
Are remastered albums better? Some people believe remastered albums are better, but some don't. Typically, the most noticeable difference -- especially when music made before the s is remastered -- is how loud the music is. Thanks to new music formats, today's music tends to be louder in volume. What is a remastered version of a song? A remastered song is one that's been adjusted or tweaked by a sound engineer.
Only the mix is changed, not the vocals or instruments. What does remastered mean on Spotify? A remastered Spotify song or album means the music has been digitally remastered, or adjusted and altered from the original master tapes. What does remastered mean in movies? Copyright extension. John B Good and joshm like this. Location: NYC. The Beach Boys. The Wanderer , Aug 26, Location: Millarville, Alberta.
Chemguy , Aug 26, Location: United States Of America. Michael , Aug 26, Al Kuenster and joshm like this. Location: Austria.
LeBon Bush , Aug 26, LeBon Bush likes this. Location: New Zealand. I think it changes from release to release really, these days it has become a bit of a cynical marketing exercise though I do think there are some technical reasons for doing it which is where the digital remaster came from.
CraigBic , Aug 26, Location: Houston. If a demand for a product exists , and it makes financial sense to make such product where a profit will most likely he gained, the product gets made.
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