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Message: [QUOTE="Lenard, post: 15836, member: 5"] [USER=636]@Munyaradzi Mafaro[/USER] unfortunately that's true. If that wasn't true there wouldn't be loudness wars in the music industry. All you have to do is just listen to some modern Jazz songs and decide for yourself. But still and all, people are free to do whatever they want with their music so that's that. [USER=629]@Tafadzwa Twabam[/USER] software companies like iZotope, FabFilter, Waves Audio, DMG, etc are also a threat to professional mixing and mastering engineers because they have been progressively making it possible for each and every bedroom producer to easily have access to state-of-the-art software without the need to spend thousands of Euros/Dollars like in the old days, neither do you need to be someone's tea boy/girl to learn the craft. You can do it on your own through patience, perseverance coupled with trial and error. Now think about it? Why pay something like $1200 to get an album mastered when you can try each and every online mastering service or program with that type of budget and decide what you like and what you don't like. This is where the industry is going—a race to the bottom just like on Amazon Seller Central with all those constant repricing shenanigans by pennies. Furthermore, automated mastering in the event that it vastly improves by a long shot it is actually good for major record labels who regularly have to release music each and every week. Imagine the huge amounts of money they could save or reinvest into a business instead of paying several human mastering engineers thousands of dollars on music projects. It's just business and if you can't compete you are straight out of luck. Unfortunately, that's how this world works. It's either you beat them or you join them— it's all part of the great capitalist game. [/QUOTE]

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