[Rubberducky1324]

> just genuinely more data.

Mastering is mostly done purely digital, so only when they are pressed are they converted to analog grooves. This can never add new data / information.

[redwall_hp]

So is mixing and recording. Nobody is dropping $100K for a decades-old mixing console and tape recorders when a couple thousand dollars worth of computers and software will not only suffice but blow away the other for flexibility and fidelity.

Gain staging against an analogue noise floor, not having nonlinear/nondestructive editing, etc. would be, to use a technical term, "fucking stupid."