Re: [ARSCLIST] stereo or double mono

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

David Lennick wrote:

> I haven't run across any of the "real" mono vs "not real" mono ones Mike describes.
> On the other hand, I've had some horrors where a master was reprocessed into fake
> stereo and then mixed down for a mono issue. RCA did that a number of times in the
> 60s. Eddie Fisher's Greatest Hits comes to mind.

Persisting on this thread ...

Georg Solti's recording of Wagner's Ring is appropriately a reference 
point for such adventures. John Culshaw's engineering exploited devices 
for stereo 'realism' which did not work in monaural. As a result, the 
stereo and mono mixes differed substantially.

Some years ago, there was a CD-ROM release of the Ring which used the 
Solti recording in a compressed monaural format. You guessed it: they 
used the stereo recording and summed the channels.

Mike
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