bblackwood wrote on Sun, 15 May 2005 13:40 |
lucey wrote on Sun, 15 May 2005 12:33 | We all have a range of sound ... the gear chain (especially converters) for one thing ... and personal taste DOES play into it no matter how hard we try.
Ludwig's stuff sounds like the Pacific HDCD, for example.
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Fine, I agree our gear can color the sound in a certain way, but if Henrik is right, you should be able to listen to a record and know who mastered it without looking at the credits...
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It's really an impossible question to answer. If you and Henrik applied the same 3dB tweak at x freq or whatever it was, through the same gear and were in different rooms, it could sound different, but the whole deal is, neither of you are going to listen to the same tune and think that it needs the exact same tweak. In this regard an ME is applying his sound to a tune, but the music varies so much in tracking procedures, mixing procedures, band performance, genre, intruments used, mixing techniques and what processes that engineer applied, that identifying an ME on every tune that he masters isn't going to happen with any consistency.
I think we all have a certain ballpark that we are trying to get the music to fit, what sounds good to each of us tonally and impact wise, but it varies from project to project so much that there is no ME sound that can be identifiable everytime, even with the A listers, IMHO.