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On Sunday 10 July 2011 18:28:50 Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:57:41PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

> > On Saturday 09 July 2011 23:43:07 Fons Adriaensen wrote:

> > > Mastering as a separate step has two, maybe three functions or

> > > merits:

> > > 3. To equalise levels and atmosphere and create dramatic effect

> > > when assembling an album consisting of several separate pieces.

> > > The is the only function that remains today, in the circumstances

> > > we are talking about.

> >=20

> > Given that nowadays most music is sold in songs, not in albums, and even

> > if sold in albums, is played in tracks in random order on peoples

> > players, it is pretty futile to create a consistent effect for several

> > songs...

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> Not all music is 'songs', and some people still have an

> attention span that exceeds 180s.

Even though my attention span is good enough for the whole 7 minutes of "Ca=

n't=20

you hear me knocking" or the full 15minutes of some dire straits sessions,=

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still my mp3-player destroys the "album feel" by using an artificial direct=

ory=20

sorting...
I know there is music that is not "songs". I know there is music that is=20

"songs in albums" that simply has to be played in order to make sense.
But we are taling about mastering here: If its a live-album that you mixed =

in=20

yourself and now try to master: There is no reason why you should use the=20

mastering step to create a certain connection for the album. You already ha=

ve=20

all that is needed inside the mixing process. If its some other kind of epo=

s=20

that has to be played in order and you mixed it yourself, why not use the=20

mixing-data to create the epos? Fixing mixing errors/problems in mastering =

is=20

what people make money with. But there is no reason why you should pay=20

yourself for mastering to fix your own errors from mixing...
Have fun,
Arnold
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