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Originally Posted by RainbowStorm
I don't agree about that. Mastering is unnecessary if the result is not something better. Better in this context is defined by the mastering engineer. In that process he is automatically confirming that the consumption of the mix sound field is most efficient by using his definition on that. When not he does what he does to make it efficient enough, that's his role to meet certain needs related to the final product. This is what makes him valuable for the production process.

Again that is
your opinion.
I mix for a living and i don't mix for Mastering engineers(even though some are good friends).
I mix
for the client.
What he/she decides to do after with it is up to them.
Its their property and they can do as they choose with it.
I think people have gotten into their heads that there is this regimented way records are done.
This so called protocol that everything has to be done "by the book"of the engineers union.
Man if no one's gotten it yet records aren't made for us.
They are made for
public consumption.
Records are meant to entertain people just like a movie, a broadway show, a comic book, a sports event, a mystery novel. etc.
How it gets to the public doesn't really matter.
Always keep in mind that we are just part of that process.
We aren't the process though and i think that's where i am afraid some Engineers have gone to.