Hegelian Dialectic Deluxe Edition in it's pre-mastered form. You can now hear the album as Prodigy and Myself had it when we walked into the mastering house. Shout out to Tony Gillis at The Cutting Room NYC for doing an amazing job on the master. In this version you can hear the dynamic differences that a mastering engineer will smooth out and polish off, essentially doing their job. When I mix records I think 4th dimensionaly that the mastering engineer will tighten the slightest separations and close some dynamic windows. Thus I will create slightly more than needed vocal separation and dynamic variations so that there is no possibility of the mastering engineer flattening out the mix and diminishing the subtle dynamics that were created. The key to a quality vocal mix is the separation of the vocals from the music. Too much and it sounds like Drake, nothing but vocals and snares. Too little and the vocals get squashed on lesser quality sound systems and headphones. Use a pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones and you will hear exactly what we heard at the last stage of mixing the album. You will also notice some production changes from this version to the final master, highlighting the fact that during mastering the dynamics of the mixes are going to be altered and brought to a closer sense of uniformity, thus some reverb tails, song outros and transition periods will not feel the same. It's ok to make changes even at the last stage. Strive for perfection or you will only hear the things that you would wish to change when you hear the final product. Rip P.