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[QUOTE="Sadzandiuraye, post: 15931, member: 2314"]
[USER=2173]@Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi[/USER] Overrated means something is praised too much and rated higher than its merit. Audio mastering does not contribute more than 0.5% compared to songwriting, production, and mixing because it doesn't bring much to the table unlike what many normies think when they listen to the end product.

In other words, mixing engineers on a hierarchy of music production is a step higher than mastering engineers. Artists are at the top because they are the ones who should shine always. Everything should revolve around them, not engineers.

In an economic system of capitalism, some folks have to be at the bottom (i.e. session musicians, ghostwriters, backing vocalists, mastering engineers), some at the middle (i.e. recording, mixing engineers, topliners, songwriters, and music producers) while some folks have to be at the top (i.e. artists, record label executives, and corporate shareholders).

The opposite of that would be socialism—meaning the song will be owned by everyone involved.

But y'all know very well record labels and recording artists could care less about neither topliners, songwriters, record producers, or sound engineers except using them like assembly line workers. They all strive to maintain a power structure in which the entire record industry revolves around them—any other mode of operation is completely wrong.
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