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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Pet Sounds DVD-Audio |
| Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:10:24 -0500 |
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From what the box set said Brian recorded the backing tracks on 3-4 tracks (at
Western/United, Sunset Sound and Gold Star studios), these were mixed down to
mono and then copied to a 8 track recorder at Columbia studios where the Beach
Boys added thier vocals on the other 7 tracks.
So after you synch up all those multi-tracks you have anywhere from 4 (for
songs with Brian's solo vocals) to 10 tracks to mix from. While that works
fine
for stereo, I always felt it would be impossible to do a realistic 5:1 mix
without using lots of reverb to fill in the holes. Sounds like they did just
that!
Billy
At 03:37 PM 8/22/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Chris Coyle wrote:
>> Not true..
>
>Mea maxima culpa and all that - see my previous post
>
>> BTW..the 5.1 mix is a let down and Linett didn't make use of the
>> center speaker at all. It blows compared to the 5.1 Beatles Anthology
>> mixes. The stereo mix, on the other hand, is fantastic and the one I
>> listen to. The 5.1 mix is basically the stereo mix swamped in reverb!
>> a joke!
>
>So I've heard. A friend on one of the Beach Boys lists has been extracting
>the different channels, and he said that the centre channel contains only
>reverb, the .1 bass channel is inaudible, though looking at the waveform on
>the computer shows a few spikes, and that of the four remaining channels two
>are inaudibly different, though the waveforms are visibly different -
>presumably from different amounts of reverb on each channel.
>Essentially it seems to be a quad mix being sold as 5.1, though allowances
>must be made for the fact that some of the multitracks are missing and the
>majority of those that exist are only 4-track (at least for the
>instruments - there are eight-track vocal tapes...)
>
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Billy G. Spradlin
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