Keep in mind that early stereo recordings were Left/Center/Right as pan-pots were not available on some consoles. The stereo release of Sgt. Peppers is a good example of this.
Tim On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Andrew Davis wrote: > I find quite the opposite, 60's bands will sometimes have the most > stereo separation. When stereo recording came out they made the most > of it, they would put whole instruments on just one channel, it would > make you feel like you are in the middle of the band. Then the 70's > "wall-of-sound" came out and it started to be had to pull generated > instruments to one side without ruining the effect. Now its all just > mono again. > > In this digital age its kinda strange we still use analog modulation. > If it were digital, and there was not L-R information it would just > encode the one signal better, not wasting information and bandwidth > like FM. > > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: >> On 02/19/2012 12:46 PM, Andrew Davis wrote: >>> >>> The is a lot of really cool reasons for the stereo to be the way it >>> is, check out http://transmitters.tripod.com/stereo.htm it's an >>> amazing read. >>> >>> Also the problem of no stereo signal is probably with modern music, >>> there is not much difference between L and R anymore, just a single >>> channel of mass produced noise, so since the're subtractive, silence >>> is broadcast on the L-R signal, not like days past when Pink Floyd >>> would fly you though space on both channels! >>> >> Yes, I recognize that a lot of modern mixing leads to almost no stereo >> separation. >> But this is a classic rock station. I would expect the really-old stuff >> (old Beetles, for >> example) to be mono, but stuff produced in the 1970s and 1980s you'd expect >> to >> have good stereo separation. >> >> Ironically, the *advertisements* have better stereo than the music sources!! >> >> >> -- >> Marcus Leech >> Principal Investigator >> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium >> http://www.sbrac.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
