Tracking, Mixing, and Mastering
Send us a text In the days before tape recording, records had to be made “live,” with the performance going directly to a master lacquer disc. In the 1950s, when recording to tape became possible, the mastering step could be detached from recording, but the performance was still captured live. When multitrack tape became universal in studios in the 1960, the concept of mixing after recording emerged. In the decades that followed, many engineers chose to specialize in one of the three steps ma...