I agree that The Beatles are a good example, not only The White Album,
e.g. Rubber Soul is a god mixed one AND Stg. Pepper's. Another good
mixed record is Jimi Hendrix's Cry of Love. Stg. Peppers and Cry of Love
are also good examples for my note. On both masterings there are a lot
of 'unnatural' effects. Phasing and flanging isn't used for classic or
oldish jazz. I guess that Katz's technique is good for everyone. I'll
fetch later to read it completely. On modern music there is a lot more
to take care than for classic etc.. You should listen to Peter Gabriel
and Prince, both are not from the generation "auto tune" ;) or listen to
latest Black Eyed Peas, they are the hardcore generation "auto tune".
All this music is using much technique that is "unnatural". If you want
to compress music very hard, so that you can listen to it while driving
a car (you can't listen to classic while driving a car, because it's bad
mixed for this kind of listening) and you will use effects that have a
hard impact to the phases, you have to use a complete different
technique to classic recordings. Listen to the Pet Shop Boys! They did
very bad mixings. The masterings remove life from the music. What I want
to say is, that effects for popular music are part of the compositions,
while classic and classic jazz don't integrate effects as part of the
compositions. For modern music microphonics isn't very important, for
classic it's very important, resp. modern microphonics plays with the
"sonic runtimes" (I don't know the right term on English, the German
word is "Laufzeit") while for classic you need to tune "sonic runtimes".
There are a lot of differences in mastering, especially when using home
recording equipment. I guess I made a little mistake ;) ... microphonics
is part of the recordings and not of the mastering, but it has impact to
the mastering ... another issue, you have to prepare, take care for the
mastering before you do the mastering ;) AND AGAIN: Effects aren't part
of classic and classic jazz recordings, if you use effects in popular
styles you can forget about mastering techniques for music that doesn't
use effects.
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