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Originally Posted by Drafhk  So would it be fair to say that mixing is, essentially, mastering the individual tracks and sounds as "pieces," while "mastering" refers to messing with everything once it's already put together? |
In simple terms, yeah, pretty much, but in mixing you're not "mastering the individual tracks." In mixing, you're "mixing the individual tracks" into the way you want it to be. You're making the instruments fit together. When done, you mix down those individual tracks into a stereo 2-track.
That stereo 2-track is then mastered.