Old Stereo recordings

@tapeworm wrote:


@orion3 wrote:

It’s called Audacity and is free  . . .  I know it will allow you to convert the mp3 to mono and I think you can copy one channel and add it to the other which might produce a stereo type effect. 


Let me get this straight. You’re suggesting taking a perfectly recorded stereo file and converting it to mono because you don’t like the sound of 2 separate tracks meticulously engineered and recorded to play concurrently (aka stereo)?..

I think he’s talking about, not the meticulously mixed and blended contemporary recordings, but the ghastly late '50s/early '60 recordings where the vocals are panned hard left and the instruments hard right, or even worse, high frequencies hard left and lows hard right. Stereo for stereo’s sake.

Message Edited by jsmaye on 03-12-2010 05:49 AM