aussievintage Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 Just played this album. I have a soft spot for old Dino. Anyway, what a bad mix!! The whole orchestra is in the right channel, Dino is in the middle, and the backup singers are all in the left. Lopsided and just hard to listen to. Like some early Beatles stereo I suppose.
audiofeline Posted September 29, 2019 Posted September 29, 2019 Back from the days when they felt they had to make a stereo record from mono recordings. Mono was so old-fashioned, and they had to give the consumers what they really wanted. And the record company marketing department knew what the consumers wanted better than the consumers did themselves. Just like now days, except in place of horrible stereo mixes we get horrible brickwalled mastering. 1
aussievintage Posted September 29, 2019 Author Posted September 29, 2019 9 hours ago, audiofeline said: Back from the days when they felt they had to make a stereo record from mono recordings. Mono was so old-fashioned, and they had to give the consumers what they really wanted. And the record company marketing department knew what the consumers wanted better than the consumers did themselves. Just like now days, except in place of horrible stereo mixes we get horrible brickwalled mastering. That fake stereo was horrible. Can't stand what they did, sometimes just a delay for the second channel, with reverby distortion. 1
timtape Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 Yes extreme left and right panning can be hard to listen to especially through headphones. But that wasn't always how they originally intended it. Before stereo came along, studio recordings could still be in "multitrack". The early Beatles recordings were mostly in 2 track, with say voices on one track and the band on the other. This made it easier to balance (mix) vocals and band before releasing to the public in mono. The first "stereo" Beatles release in the US was apparently a mistake. Capitol studios were given a 2 track master from which to press the discs. They didn't know any different so released it like that. Fans could now use their stereo's balance control to balance vocals and band to taste! This may have also been the case with the Dino record too, but it may have been recorded in 3 track, a common studio format in the 50's and 60's. I came across a UK recording from the early 50's ,well before stereo went public, and it was in stereo. It seems record companies were making and stockpiling stereo recordings before stereo discs became available. These days, if the record company still has the original multitracks, old recordings can even be remixed as with the latest Beatles album Abbey Road, with different mixing and panning of voices and instruments possible. 1
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