Michael Shoshani wrote: > Personally, I'd love to have even a CD of the mono version of the 1812 > Overture. (I have the stereo CD, but including the original single-mic > mono recording would have been a nice touch.)
Actually this would set up the possibilities of having a separation of the music and the cannons and bells, for both the mono and
stereo versions. David Hall did the mono, and he did the sound effects on a separate reel. There probably is a production master
mix that could be used to cut new masters and have the balance and synchronization the same each time, but the original unmixed
reels should still exist. There are several examples over at Capitol records where they apparently didn't have mixed production
masters, for example -- The Music Man's train bells vary on different cuttings, and they either lost or forgot to use Stan Freberg's
Kay Kyser imitation intros on the CD of KK's Greatest Hits.
Michael Biel m.biel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx