Any thoughts on differing CD REISSUES: Mono/Stereo Martin Denny, Esquivel - Tiki Music

T tikibars Tiki Socialite Aku Hall, Chicago Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2038	T tikibars Posted posted on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 8:22 PM On 2008-01-18 05:40, OnyaBirri wrote: Before the advent of multitrack (thank Les Paul, among others, for helping to come up with the idea), records were played live in the studio directly to disc or tape. No remixing or overdubbing. A 'balance engineer' (obsolete job title) did a primitive version of what we now call mixing on the fly during the artist's performance. In the early days of two-track stereo, it was not uncommon to have two engineers and tape set-ups at a session - one mixing the mono recording and one mixing the stereo recording. The two could sound radically different. Perhaps, but this doesn't change my point in any way - there was no remix going on after the fact, at a later date, to get the different versions.

On 2008-01-18 05:40, OnyaBirri wrote:

Before the advent of multitrack (thank Les Paul, among others, for helping to come up with the idea), records were played live in the studio directly to disc or tape. No remixing or overdubbing. A 'balance engineer' (obsolete job title) did a primitive version of what we now call mixing on the fly during the artist's performance.

In the early days of two-track stereo, it was not uncommon to have two engineers and tape set-ups at a session - one mixing the mono recording and one mixing the stereo recording. The two could sound radically different.

Perhaps, but this doesn't change my point in any way - there was no remix going on after the fact, at a later date, to get the different versions.

Post #355897 by tikibars on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 8:22 PM