<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">This Sgt Pepper mono/stereo discussion, got my little grey cells going as it was not how I remembered the stereo album.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I just finished listening to the stereo vinyl of '67. Yes there is a lot of hard left/hard right. But in many songs, the vocals are dead center. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In the opening number, Paul is on one side but the chorus is on the other and then slowly pans to the middle and Paul takes over on the other side.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In 1967 most stereo albums had set the format with vocals + bass center. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think one of the reasons this album is so fabulous is that they more or less said "there are no rules or recipes - anything goes." </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">They used the panorama very creatively. You don't get much of that anymore.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I don't care for the mono remix from the Mono Box Set. For my taste, it's over compressed and harsh.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nothing like my original vinyl from the UK (which is miles apart from the North american version - don't want to start a discussion here).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">It was easier back then. All I had to worry about was a good stereo mix and possibly a mono one. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I just prayed that the radio stations would not mess it up badly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Now the engineers have to worry about all the different release formats, streaming, YouTube, vinyl, CD, etc etc</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Glad to be out of the rat race/format war.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Louis</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 4:42 PM Tim Požár via ProAudio <<a href="mailto:proaudio@bach.pgm.com">proaudio@bach.pgm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Reminds me of Sgt Peppers. They had released two versions of it, a mono <br>
and a stereo. The stereo was hard left, center, hard right as nothing <br>
was panned. Very odd sounding recording. I preferred the mono version.<br>
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Tim<br>
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On 4/24/21 1:27 PM, Louis Judson via ProAudio wrote:<br>
> Good points, Bob. Remnds me of the Beatles recording and monitoring in <br>
> mono originally, yet how many “fans” consider the stereo versions <br>
> definitive. I’m always refreshed listening to the mono mixes again! Also <br>
> appreciating the remixes over the years…<br>
> <br>
> I’ve never heard 5.1 or any surround at all… (except for a few movies) - <br>
> primitive I may be, but I am not feeling any lack.<br>
> <L><br>
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>> On Apr 24, 2021, at 1:21 PM, Bob Olhsson via ProAudio <br>
>> <<a href="mailto:proaudio@bach.pgm.com" target="_blank">proaudio@bach.pgm.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:proaudio@bach.pgm.com" target="_blank">proaudio@bach.pgm.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Recordings need to have all of the production decisions made while <br>
>> listening in the delivery format. Recordings, unlike movies, are <br>
>> intended for repeated playing which I think is a higher bar. We went <br>
>> through this same dance during the transition from mono to stereo in <br>
>> the 1960s.<br>
>> Bob Olhsson<br>
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