I see magic created live at my open mics by daring songwriters who step up to the plate and offer a very human, accessible rendition of their own music for a very human, accessible, forgiving and supportive crowd.

Just like beauty, value is in the eye of the beholder too.

While I appreciate the purpose and expertise of a masterful masterer, there is nothing that compares (IMO) to the sincere performace of a song LIVE. Mastering takes a back seat to that - no matter the rendition. It's not the mastering that makes the song *POP* for me . . . it is people just being real. Period.

Sorry. Just struck me and felt I needed to stand up for those who don't necessarily have a shiny project as a goal.

Don't get me wrong . . . there's nothing wrong with wanting to present your very best - and if mastering does that for you, then have at it! But there is beauty in just plain old song sharing with those wanting to hear it.

~Bubbles smile

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems. ~Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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