What does "remastering" mean?
I've just read recently that Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan have remastered Mule Variations(1999) and a few other of their more recent albums. I own Mule Variations in both cd and lp formats and both already sound great. Which makes me wonder when a recording is remastered(particularly when that recording is fairly modern)what does it actually amount to?
What does "remastering" mean?
Most of the time remastering means compressing the master and hyping it up with EQ, generally making the music hotter and louder, with digital artefacts from the EQ, and with less dynamic contrast. 90% of the time I prefer the originals, 10% if that are albums that were fixed after getting badly mastered in the first place.