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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sgt Peppers remixed. |
| Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:46:01 -0500 |
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I agree with Jamie - I listened to your mix and all you did was to add some
delay effect to both channels to "spread" the hard right/left channels
tword the center. I have heard many remixes of 60's material where elements
of the original mix (percussion, horns, strings, background vocals) got
buried. Or on the other hand some engineers feel the need to make
everything sound modern and you get gated snares, or truckloads of digital
delay/reverb onto everything to "spread" things originally recorded into
mono into annoying fake stereo. The result is nothing like the original
producers wanted.
Last month I put together a new stereo remix of Glen Campbell's "Guess Im
Dumb" - I had several rough instrumental/vocal mixes from a Beach Boys
"Unsurpassed Masters" CD and thought "why hasnt anyone compiled a good
stereo mix?" So I used Cool Edit/Sound forge and synched-up two mixes and
part of the original mono mix to create it - but I left the stereo
instumental mix alone with the backing track on the left, horns on the
right and mixed Glen and the background vocals in the center (which became
locked in mono after I removed the backing track and edited out coughs and
background talk) with just a little reverb to re-create the original mix.
It sounds like it could have been mixed in the late 60's.I could have moved
some things around but I thought it sounded best this way.
You can download it at http://home.earthlink.net/~bgspradlin/dumb.zip (PS
you'll need Winzip or any compatable program - Earthlink doesnt like Mp3
posting)
Billy
>An interesting mix. But, I've got to ask: why?
>
>You're trying to impose 21st Century expectations on a 35 year old
>recording. That's like bitching about the 2-track mixes of Robert Johnson
>material from 1923.
>
>These are snapshots of the creative process from a specific time period. And
>they had technical limitations. Pepper was recorded using two 4-track
>machines run in parallel. The single channel issue (with vocals in one side
>and the reverb return the other) was part of an audio standard at the time.
>
>I've been in recording studios in recent years where engineers lose their
>ever-loving minds when a tambourine is panned to the left and the maracca in
>the right. They don't get it. They think everything should be broad spectrum
>with everything centred in the stereo mix.
>
>Sorry, the human ear doesn't hear sound that way. We don't perform music
>live in single-file....so why should our audio recordings be presented that
>way?
>
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