Normally, it’s “2”. Music is mastered to transfer you to the place where it’s recorded. Mastering is just tuning the sound to fit into your music system limits, while keeping the atmosphere as much as possible.
ABBA’s sound is mastered to fit into AM radio and jukeboxes for example. To make the music broadly listenable, for example.
Today everything is so blurry, because there’s no studio per se. It’s just sequenced, vocal is added, mastered, compressed and released (today’s pop). Rock and other stuff is still track recorded, tho.
ABBA’s sound is mastered to fit into AM radio and jukeboxes for example. To make the music broadly listenable, for example.
Today everything is so blurry, because there’s no studio per se. It’s just sequenced, vocal is added, mastered, compressed and released (today’s pop). Rock and other stuff is still track recorded, tho.