When we say "bad mix", we are talking about losing the "soul" of a song. The power akin to wattage in an electeical circuit.A bad mix is something that a mastering engineer of the yesteryear would refuse to master. By this logic or standard, there are no "bad mixes" in all the commercially released music. This would be true in a sense that you could take a mix that you hate and think sucks (in a commercially released mastered music) and blast it and it would not blow out your speakers. So at least one could say that truly terrible mixes have been released and mastered to be playable on any playback system.
I can make a circuit that doesn't short so the LED lights up, but there could be too much resistance where the LED lacks it's full potential (it's very dim).
So yes, the song plays back beautifully in a variety of mediums - but the sound recording lost its mojo thanks to one individual's (in most cases) point of view as to how that sound recording should be balanced.
Statistics: Posted by VOODOO U — Sun Jul 07, 2024 4:46 am