As my collection grows in leaps and bounds, I now have 2 Q8's from ABC (Jim Croce - Don't Mess around w/ Jim and Grass Roots "16") that are oddly mixed. They seem to have the LEFT channels Swapped!
For Example: Front Left: Background Vocals
Front Right: Lead Vocals
Rear Left: Lead Vocals
Rear Right: Background Vocals
To me, that just sounds odd, like a "Stereo-Wide" kind of mix. It doesn't offer any sort of discrete-ness. What strikes me as odd, is that I have a GRT Quad Sampler tape with a Grass Roots song "Sooner or Later" on it, and the mix is more appropriate with Lead vocals in the front and backgrounds in the back.
I've found that if I play the tapes run thru my 4 channel tape monitor with the left channels swapped front to back, the sound is much more enjoyable!
SO, are these tapes just mis-prints or were they deliberately mixed this way?
My other Q8's from GRT (2 More Jim Croce's, and Rags to Rufus) are much better mixes. Was the recording engineer smoking an extra large dubie that day?
For Example: Front Left: Background Vocals
Front Right: Lead Vocals
Rear Left: Lead Vocals
Rear Right: Background Vocals
To me, that just sounds odd, like a "Stereo-Wide" kind of mix. It doesn't offer any sort of discrete-ness. What strikes me as odd, is that I have a GRT Quad Sampler tape with a Grass Roots song "Sooner or Later" on it, and the mix is more appropriate with Lead vocals in the front and backgrounds in the back.
I've found that if I play the tapes run thru my 4 channel tape monitor with the left channels swapped front to back, the sound is much more enjoyable!
SO, are these tapes just mis-prints or were they deliberately mixed this way?
My other Q8's from GRT (2 More Jim Croce's, and Rags to Rufus) are much better mixes. Was the recording engineer smoking an extra large dubie that day?