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Sep 27, 2014 - 2:30 PM
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OnyaBirri
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This album dates from a very brief era in the mid-late 1950s during which stereo and mono recordings, rather than being recorded to same multi-track master, were recorded separately in mono and stereo, with different configurations of mics, and different mixing consoles and engineers.
My LPs of Peter Gunn were always mono. It has a very clean, well-mixed sound, as it should, because engineers had had about 60 or 70 years' practice recording in mono. It sounds close-miked and well-balanced, probably mixed on the fly to mono through a multi-channel mixer. (This is how Capitol recorded in mono during this time; I'm guessing things were similar at RCA.)
I got the CD in stereo a few years ago, and it is a completely wet, reverb-laden mess. It sounds like the engineers simply hung a couple of overhead mics, crossed their fingers, and hoped for the best. There is so much reverb on it - not sure if it is natural room verb or added - that it blurs the harmonies. There are balance issues too. For example, John Williams' "background" piano ad-libs in "Dreamsville" completely obscure the main melody played by the bones and French horns.
Did the stereo LP sound as bad as this CD? The mono is so much cleaner and well-mixed by comparison. I wonder if the mono recording ever made it to CD, but I doubt it.
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