Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Hm I dunno. This isn't strictly a remaster of the original battle music, but more a re-arrangement of it as well. Simply remastering it would just increase the fidelity of the music, giving it a higher dynamic range, cleaner instrument samples, etc. It wouldn't add electric guitars where there weren't electric guitars before.
You're right, it's a new recording. Mastering doesn't really involve fidelity or samples, though, it's just what you do after mixing to finalize the audio. Fidelity and sample quality are things that you'd have to fix in the recording stage. Source: 10 years of recording, mixing, mastering music.