[mb-style] RFC: Modify AdvancedRelationships page in wiki

[Brian Schweitzer]

I guess the concept I'm thinking of, where it might be a true release level
AR, would be something like "release normalization engineer" type of
mastering, where it can't be done to only a single track, as it truly is
release in scope, not track by track.  The mastering/engineering equiv of
regular MP3 gain vs the "album gain" mode.

Brian

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chris B <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:

> 2009/1/7 Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
> > Not to stray too far from the RFC, but re case 4, for album mastering,
> > perhaps mastering volume/compression levels across the entire release,
> > rather than track master mastering?
>
> 'album wide' mastering is used in 99% of releases, yet still it should
> always be a track level AR under these rules IMO. if you load up one
> track in that album, it is mastered by the guy who did the mastering
> for the release, just as it might feature guitar by the guitarist for
> the release/band, etc.
>
> > I know I've seen the rare release that
> > actually credited track by track mastering, but also credited "album
> > mastering" or "album remastering" separately.  Perhaps those latter ones
> > would be the case 4, with the former being case 2.  (And all those case 1
> > fuzzies making it confusing by still being at the release level :P).
>
> i would have thought the former would apply to all tracks EXCEPT those
> mentioned as being mastered by someone else. it would be really rare
> to see someone master on top of a master (that's like re-encoding an
> mp3), but if they did that IMO would be a case of assigning 2
> masterers to the track level, seeing as both are responsible for
> changes to that audio.
>
> sorry to keep banging on about this but i think we have to be really
> clear about the the kind of ARs we mean. i suppose essentially it
> could be audio-related ARs at track level (or release level if they
> are fuzzies), and non-audio related ARs at release level. is that what
> we mean?
>
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