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Originally Posted by Timecode  Especially when that someone else is liable to squash the mix like crazy, seriously changing balances that the musician spent a long time getting the way they wanted. |
Not if you ask them not to.
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Originally Posted by Timecode I suppose what I'm saying is that often (in my experience at least) the decision to do it oneself is based on a lack of trust in anothers abilities / fear that they will do something you don't like and can't control, rather than on a budgetting issue. People would rather trust themselves than someone else. |
It's not that hard to find someone to trust- just find someone who has worked on a record that you like the sound of.
You have a good point though.
But I don't think that mastering engineers are losing all that much paying work to the do it all yourselfers.