06 Mastering for Vinyl Vinyl is a much more physical medium than CD.
"If you are going to use destructive processors, e.g. any type of compression on the whole mix, normalizing, ultra maximizing, peak limiting, please provide the engineer with a non-processed mix."
Jason Goz
Mastering engineer
Transition
When you're working digitally, pretty much the same limitations apply to the sound of the engineer's mastering workstation as to the final CD.
With vinyl, the limits aren't so obvious and there are certain things which will sound fine in the studio but not so great when transferred onto a vinyl master.
For example, really extreme stereo effects on bass sounds and kick drums don't tend to cut very well.
That means that there may be compromises which will be needed when mastering for vinyl and that's why you need to find an experienced engineer and to be there while they're working.
You can discuss the options and approve the changes as the engineer makes them.
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