[78-L] earliest use of multiple mic mixing

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It would be stereo, but syncing up two such sources would be an 
incredible feat. I believe we have discussed this before, quite some 
time ago.

Mechanically driven recorders were not so speed accurate. Someone would 
have to write a heck of a program to sync the 2 signals.

joe salerno


Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> Thatcher Graham wrote:
>>> I can't name a recording but I know that in 1881 Clement Ader installed
>>> pairs of carbon mics on a Paris opera stage for telephone subscribers to
>>> listen in.
>> Actually there was a row of telephone transmitters across the whole
>> stage front, and each listener would have a pair of receivers connected
>> to a pair of transmitters, one on the left side and one on the right
>> side.  The thought was that if they only had one they would miss what
>> was on the other side of the stage.
>>
> This brings to mind another interesting possibility...! In the early years 
> of
> cylinder recording, a fair number of recorders were set up simultaneously
> so that cylinders could be recorded in quantity. Now, IF one could find
> a pair of cylinders recorded of one performance...but made using the
> recorders at either end of the array...the result c/would be "accidental
> stereo"...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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