http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/stereo.html
We are ever humbly corrected, Dave.
On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:35 AM, wrote:
> This is NOT the first stereo recording. It may be what disney would
> like
> you to think. Just do a little research....
>
> Dave
>
> Bernie Krause wrote:
>>
>>
>> Historically, the first "stereo" recording was the Disney film,
>> "Fantasia." The 1940 soundtrack version was recorded in 1939 using
>> multiple tracks recording (transmitted over special phone lines, no
>> less) various classical pieces with Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia
>> Orchestra and then mixed down (mostly) to two, since that's what only
>> a few theatres were technically able to handle at the time. Folks
>> were
>> mesmerized by the sense of space. The first large-scale distribution
>> of stereo records I got were from around 1954 (Segovia and Les Paul/
>> Mary Ford). By the time the Beatles recorded (and with whom I
>> occasionally worked), 3-, 4-, and 8-track machines were already
>> fairly
>> common, later to be replaced by 16- and 24-track.
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Klas Strandberg wrote:
>>
>>> That is a good observation!
>>> At the time when Beatles e.t.c. made their recordings, loudspeakers
>>> were often diffuse and stereo was kind of "new" and impressing. I
>>> remember when we used to sit and listen and just admire that we
>>> could
>>> hear the different instruments at different places between the
>>> loudspeakers.
>>> It=B4s the same, I guess, as when all those "surround" TV systems are
>>> sold. All of a sudden you hear a machine gun in your left corner of
>>> the room, though it has nothing to do with what anything like it
>>> could sound in reality.
>>>
>>> I hope I understood this about phantom power right..? I didn't read
>>> the postings, just some lines which implied that pin 2 and 3 cannot
>>> be reversed cause of phantom power.
>>>
>>> Klas.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's interesting that our appreciation of different stereo
>>>> configurations changes over time. I listened to The Beatles
>>>> "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" albums recently after not playing them
>>>> for 20 years or so,..........
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> Krause
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