| I think the simplest, if slightly inaccurate, way to describe it would be thus:
"While a mixing engineer is responsible for each individual instrument in a track, the mastering engineer is responsible for the track as a whole. The mastering engineer works with the forest, the mixer works with the trees."
Of course that is oversimplified, but I think for most laymen it is sufficient to at least give them an idea of what an ME does. |