XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "Kirk McElhearn"  wrote in message   
   news:4d6770b9$0$32447$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr...   
   >> Back in the days of vinyl, the "master disk" was a record made of metal   
   >> (aluminum?  steel?), mixed from the original tapes.  From this, the   
   >> record company would make molds for the actual disks that were sold.   
   >   
   > Yes, but that's not the "master" in "re-master;"   
      
   Right, you don't want to use a master tape equalised for vinyl to cut a CD   
   anyway, and certainly not a disc copy, unless nothing else remains!   
      
   >it's the master tape, the final mix-down.   
      
   Depends what you call the "final" mixdown, and the best remasters go back to   
   the original multi-track and remix anyway.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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