Iain Purdon wrote:Question. If a record is properly made in the first place, what can remastering achieve?
For most of the tracks the first digital mastering has been made in the 1980s from the analogue tapes at EMI, not necessarily from the original master tapes but from tapes made for various vinyl compilations.
Depending on the quality of these mastering processes, especially considering the aging process of those tapes, a remastering can make sense.
Also if the first mastering has been made from two or four track tapes the stereo balance was in a lot of cases quite different from the original first release. With a remastering an approach can be made to come as close to the original as possible.
Thus a remastering
can make sense but the result not always does.
Ulrich