This is going to be a little piece on understanding mastering.
I’ve done a few other videos on mastering, but it’s all been pretty much process oriented.
This is going to be more about the concept of what mastering actually is.
So mastering most literally means, “Creating the master copy from which all other replications and duplications will be made.”
So if you are printing something up onto a CD, a CD is printed, and that CD is used to then make all of the other CDs that are sent out for distribution.
Similarly, if you’re making a vinyl, you have to make a master version of the vinyl, and if you are creating a digital file, that’s where things get interesting, you do need to create a digital file that will be used to clone all of the other data, but digital has certainly changed what mastering is.
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