> > I better get some coffee and shutup, > > ron > Nahh....get the coffee but don't shut up. You saved me 15 minutes writing all of that down. I think one point that is getting overlooked by a few folks here is that often the tracks on a commercial CD are not done on the same tools, or even in the same studio. They may not be done by the same tracking engineer, or the same mixing engineer. One may be done in London and another in LA, all using different people, with each track having it's own sound and characteristics. A major task of the mastering engineer is to put all of this together into a final product that sounds consistent and works together. The mental tools, and ears, required to do that are potentially quite different than those used to get the tracks on disk... Cheers, Mark
