[78-L] Fake stereo

[Ryan Wolfe]

I guess that figures, that Capitol would put their classical stuff through Duophonic.  Yuck.

It's hard to even reconvert Duophonic back to true mono...you can't fold it down , the pingy airplane hangar effect remains.


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 From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Fake stereo
 
AFAIK there are some classical albums which did use that L/R delay, and
they are on Capitol (whether on Capitol or Angel I can't say as what I
heard was from an excerpt on the sampler/promo that first hawked Duophonic).

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Ryan Wolfe <nextset4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Somewhere, I read an account by guy charged with what were the first fake
> stereo releases for RCA.
>
> He had Toscanini stuff to to work with and described his laborious and
> time consuming attempts
> manipulating a comb filter to try to take the mono sources and put them
> into a convincing and somewhat varied stereo presentation.
> Then RCA wanted him to do that with all their stuff, which was going to be
> impractical, so he / they opted for something easier.
>
> I've never heard a classical album that took a mono source and put it on
>  a true L / R delay, just the ones that use the bass in one channel  /
> treble in the other approach.   Including things like Toscanini.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Ted Kneebone <tkneebone1 at abe.midco.net>
> To: 78-l <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 8:06 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Fake stereo
>
> I have at least one LP of Glenn Miller done in
> what is called "enhanced" stereo, or something
> like that.  One channel is delayed slightly.  The
> effect is supposed to sound like an echo.   It
> really ruins what was perfectly good mono sound --
> and surely is not stereo.
>     When i play this disc, I listen to only one
> channel.  That's the only way it makes sense.
>     I think they tried this "enhanced" process with
> some of the Toscanini recordings.  If the Miller
> records are a sample, I would not own the Toscanini.
>     Ted
> Ted Kneebone
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