The Importance of Mastering

There is like a loudness bias that people have where people think something sounds better if it's louder. So they finished their initial session in Sausalino, they're nine weeks at the record plant and Ken drives the masters down on the seat beside him in his car down to LA. And I remember when I first learned about this, I thought it was bullshit that they were like, listen Stevie, it's too long, but it was too long because the album could only be 44 minutes long. There exists, you know, a finite number of the objects on which this music is encoded and if they're lost, they're just lost forever.

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