Re: [ARSCLIST] Early stereo mass market tapes

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Rollin' Recording" <lou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hey Roger,
> 
>     I don't think you can blame the "stereo Beatles stuff" for out of phase
> audio.  I was familiar with a radio station in Houston that had the output
> of its stereo cart machines wired out of phase.  Lead vocals to most
> songs vanished...and mono material...particularly commercials...was
> not there at all.   Hmmmm...maybe this out of phase business isn't so bad!
> 
What I've always figured was the problem was that the engineers that
did the mixing were inexperienced with stereo...and, as a result,
put tape tracks into either one channel or the other...not both.

I'm not sure if the next bit would apply to the first, or the
first few, recording sessions/albums...but I recall reading
somewhere that the "early cuts" were recorded using two four-
track machines running simultaneously to provide eight tracks
of audio for later "mixdown" to stereo...

Steven C. Barr