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Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then. (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, some were pretty crazy.

Is mostly because stereo sound being widely available was novel and new. I have several albums that are literally just made to let people show off the stereo aspect of their new hi-fi.

And there are some old mixes that are fairly extreme by today's standards but sound like a very real soundstage - the drums are over there, the vocals over here, etc.

But then some took it too far with the control hard pans and then relying on the hard pan to fix bad levels (like that the drums are too loud)

But even today, it's not unusual to have some instruments entirely (or very nearly) in one side of the other. Just not the primary instruments carrying the harmony and melody.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Trivia: the Beatles only sat in on the mono mixes of their songs because that's what'd be on the radio. The stereo mixes were done by the producer and the sound engineer without any input from the band.