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tmcconnell · 16th November 2006

The poster wants to master his own music? I have always regarded mastering as the last place where objectivity can enter the equation. Did Stevie Wonder master his own records, or Paul Mcartney? (Cases where they wrote all the songs and played most of the parts). I have to wonder if a listening audience is best served by someone unwilling to step outside their own vision and allow a bit of diversity, if only for the small task of rendering audio suitable for playback on a variety of reproduction systems. I could be wrong about some of that... but not very, very wrong.

16th November 2006	#33
tmcconnell Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 552	... the problem is objectivity The poster wants to master his own music? I have always regarded mastering as the last place where objectivity can enter the equation. Did Stevie Wonder master his own records, or Paul Mcartney? (Cases where they wrote all the songs and played most of the parts). I have to wonder if a listening audience is best served by someone unwilling to step outside their own vision and allow a bit of diversity, if only for the small task of rendering audio suitable for playback on a variety of reproduction systems. I could be wrong about some of that... but not very, very wrong.