Parallels
Posted on | November 12, 2008 | No Comments
Some people think that in yoga you twist and contort yourself to impose an effect on your body. In reality, you are using postures to undo muscular-skeletal patterns that have been slowly created over time…to, eventually, bring you back to equilibrium and balance. So, each posture becomes a deliberate antidote to undo what you have unknowingly done to yourself in the course of life.
Similarly, in mastering some people believe that an engineer is applying effects to impose (or create) a sound on a recording. In reality, the engineer judiciously uses effects to clarify, and sometimes counter-act or undo, aspects of a recording so that the inner elements and details come out and it translates successfully to the widest greatest variety of playback environments. The goal is to bring back an equilibrium and balance to the song or album.
I once read a quote that basically said “understand one thing completely and you understand all things completely.” Maybe…
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