Friday, November 05, 2004

Stereo is not just left and right.

Surprised? So was I when I found out. It turns out that most live recordings in stereo, including the old LPs, are recorded with three channels of audio first: Left, Right, and Center. Then when the final master is produced, the center channel is mixed to the left and right channels. For live 2-channel recording, see the binaural article below. But live stereo is recorded with 3 microphones. And now ya know... the rest of the story.

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