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Bob Ludwig do?

Or sometimes the master is whatever someone has decided is the master.

"Sometimes the record label does not want to ship the original master tapes to me from their library and insist on sending me a flat digital transfer for me to master from. This removes my ability to choose which different tape electronics and head combinations sound best to my ears, which is a big problem for me. In addition, sometimes not every cut from an album is in proper azimuth, and the label often does not correct for this when making the transfer. An even worse situation is when the label loses the master tapes and only has the commercial CD for me to work from, in which case I have to master on top of what is there. If they over-compressed it originally, there is no way to undo that."

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



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