Mr L. rang  this morning with a few questions on files.

Simple stuff really. His breezy cheerful attitude gave nothing away.

Now it's not appropriate to say to your Mastering Engineer "hey, are you digging the album' because that puts them in the position of potentially having to lie. (yeah baby, I 'm loving it)

They're professional engineers used to dealing with precious and precocious musicians,. In other words, they lie with complete facility.

Mr Lynch has to conform recordings from 10...no...11...err..maybe twelve different studios. Here's the matrix, you can work it out.

My favourite moment was when Mr Wizard cracked and had to ask 'so how's it going'.

A slight pause.

'It might...'Mr Lynch said slowly, carefully. '....take me a little longer than I thought'

ADDITIONAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:

Just been messaged by someone saying 'wtf, does that mean he doesn't like it'. My bad. I have to be more precise.

1. We wont ask. He'll tell us if he does.

2. In your usual case of recording, there will be some consistency in the sonic qualities of a studio, across the album. More or less. Sort of.

 The 'room' sounds, if you will.

The approach each engineer takes.

The choice of speakers.

Taste.

Ears.

Mr Lynch has the task of 'normalising" (consistent volume so you don't have to twiddle the knob every song) as well as enhancing frequencies (see that video below) to try and get the oomph out of each song, but the total variables are MULTIPLIED by the number of different studios.

Whoah.

We wish him well.