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   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "Kirk McElhearn"  wrote in message   
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   >> Depends what you call the "final" mixdown, and the best remasters go back   
   >> to   
   >> the original multi-track and remix anyway.   
   >   
   > Yes, it's making a new master tape, hence it generally always involves a   
   > remix, right?   
      
   Nope, it *sometimes* involves a remix from multi-track tapes. But *FAR* from   
   "generally always". More often it's simply A-D, EQ'd and compressed (and   
   usually some noise reduction) from one of the existing two track masters.   
   And it NEVER involves "making a new master tape" these days, since it stays   
   digital after the initial A-D (if the original is analog), and nobody I know   
   uses digtal tape as a backup any more.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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