The "seminar" was more of a presentation of the various products. The Amarra "head engineer" was not there, but another guy was who was only "fair to poor" as a presenter. The Peachtree demo was good, had some great stuff, was informative, and I walked away having learned something.
The biggest idea I walked away with was when the Peachtree guy talked about the current "remastering" process. He made a valid point when he said that most of the people who are re-mastering the old analog audio from the 60's and 70's were not even born when the audio that they are working on was laid down. Consequently, they don't know when the band wanted and increase in volume, etc. He did qualify his remark by saying that when the original engineers re-master or someone who is very familiar with the work then it is a different story. Of course he had to demo it and played an original of a Fleetwood Mac song off of Rumors, and then played the re-mastered version. There was a profound difference in the sound and the re-master was not even close to the original, though both were digital.
Supposed to be 75 here tomorrow in the foothills. Need some rain, lest we have another wildfire season that goes out of control.
