[Trevor]

"Kirk McElhearn" kirkmc (at) mac (dot) com wrote in message
. fr...
Depends what you call the "final" mixdown, and the best remasters go back
to
the original multi-track and remix anyway.

Yes, it's making a new master tape, hence it generally always involves a
remix, right?

Nope, it *sometimes* involves a remix from multi-track tapes. But *FAR* from
"generally always". More often it's simply A-D, EQ'd and compressed (and
usually some noise reduction) from one of the existing two track masters.
And it NEVER involves "making a new master tape" these days, since it stays
digital after the initial A-D (if the original is analog), and nobody I know
uses digtal tape as a backup any more.

Trevor.