I know I'm just learning my craft, and the cheeseburger analogy with the Seinfeld/Kramer reference that I made in an earlier post was probably lost on evryone.
But I will say this. Everything I read about mastering says that a good master is dependent on a good mix. Also. everything I read about a good mix says that mixing is "subjective." I have also heard it said that mastering is subjective. Then, folks keep talking about using reference mixes, and folks who master say that they like it when an artist tells them which CD, or other artist, they would like to sound like. Then Jimmy alludes that LANDR is genre dependent So what in the heck are we talking about?
So, I'm not averse to LANDR. I do want to be able to install it or not, which Bapu has shown there are ways to avoid installing it in CCC. If people want to use it, and they get a good result, fine. If a pro uses it for a down and dirty rough master, fine. Will it ever replace a pro mastering engineer, maybe in the future, but robots will eventually replace everyone. I remember Bit saying that a plugin will never replace good old hands on wave editing, and where the technology is right now, I have to agree with him.
For me, I choose to practice mixing and mastering, and to get better at it using my ears. But it's all subjective right?
LANDR is not good or bad in essence, at least in my opinion. So there, I'm done...another use of bandwidth in the cacophony of the LANDR thread.
Jesse Q. Screed
"nature does not hurry, yet all is accomplished"