ABSTRACT
Now how does this relate to mixing? Well, very little… but at the same time, quite a lot. It is the mastering engineer’s responsibility to fit the dynamic range of a mix onto different kinds of media (and they do compress vinyl cuts). Nowadays, with the decreasing popularity of tape machines, we hardly change between one system and another – during mixdown, we care little about the overall dynamic range of our mix. However, very often while we mix we want to make loud or quiet sounds louder or quieter. It is rarely the overall dynamic range we have in mind – what we really want to control is dynamics.
