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curtiswyant
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Lots of "classic" 60s albums were mixed in mono...Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper, Kinks Village Green, etc...everyone seems to want that sound, why not mix it like they intended back in the day?
Ronan said:Many of those albums were mixed in mono (such as pet sounds)
I don't think that everyone wants that sound. I think everyone respects how good they got it to sound with what they had to work with. That is a big difference.curtiswyant said:everyone seems to want that sound, why not mix it like they intended back in the day?
That makes absolutely NO difference... as I said earlier:curtiswyant said:They tracked everything assuming it was just another mono record.
So whether they originally intended to mix in stereo or not is really pretty much irrelevant....Blue Bear Sound said:...there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting a majority of the mix balance done while monitoring on mono, and then switching to stereo later on in the process. It's far more difficult to get tracks to sit properly in a mono mix than in stereo, so it really forces one to pay attention to acoustic space and definition around each track....
curtiswyant said:The stereo mixes for Sgt. Pepper were done as an afterthought. They tracked everything assuming it was just another mono record.
Uh... no... how do you figure that? You don't get a stereo mix by only using stereo tracks!Monkey Allen said:But if you track everything assuming for a mono mix, wouldn't a later decision to mix in stereo only be a mock stereo mix?
I track everything in mono and I don't remember ever mixing anything in mono. I don't understand what you think the difference is.Monkey Allen said:But if you track everything assuming for a mono mix, wouldn't a later decision to mix in stereo only be a mock stereo mix?
Dogman said:Stereo or stereophony generally refers to dual-channel sound recording and sound reproduction – sound that contains data for more than one speaker simultaneously. Compact disc audio and some radio broadcasts are stereo. The purpose of stereo recording is to recreate a more natural listening experience where the spatial location of the source of a sound is, at least in part, reproduced.
Stereo comes from the Greek word for solid, and the term can be applied to any system using more than one channel, such as such as the multichannel audio 5.1- and 6.1-channel systems used on high-end film and television productions. However it is more commonly used to refer exclusively to two-channel systems.
Although stereo can have two independent mono channels, usually the signal on one channel is related to the signal on the other channel. For example, if the same signal is recorded on both channels, then it will appear as a central phantom image when played on loudspeakers. That is, the sound appears to becoming from the center between the loudspeakers.
Many methods for encoding stereo information are backwards compatible, meaning that they can be understood by monaural systems as well. This is most commonly done by including, for example, the sum of the right and left (R+L) signal on the main channel, and the difference (R-L) on a second channel. A monaural system can thus use only the signal on the main channel and to produce a reasonable monaural "translation" of the stereo information, while a stereo system can add and difference the two channels to recover the right and left speaker information. This practice is used in, for example, FM radio; an additional benefit in this situation is that if the signal is too weak for both channels to be received clearly, a stereo receiver can use only the main channel.
Cl魥nt Ader designed the first stereo system in 1881 for theaters.
Stereo recording was introduced in the music business in the fall of 1957, superseding monaural (single-channel) recording.
gtar02 said:A band called Starflyer 59 put out a record that was all mono a few years ago. I think it was called leave here a stranger. I would have never thought about it giving it a casual listen. It was a pretty good record.