Faithful to Originals?

Hi!

"So are the stereo mixes faithful to the originals?"

What a great question! On one hand, the originals were mono, so they are not
faithful to the original. But as the composer put the music together, was he
listening to it in mono? I suspect that he was hearing his in stereo.

For collecting purposes, I would assume a collector would want everything as
it came out originally. Personally, I am not a purist, though I can
understand why people are. I like improvements, and don't mind "enhanced"
versions of things. Don't get me wrong, I do like Black and White movies,
but the people in those movies were not in a black and white medium, that
just happened to be the way it was recorded.

The question I might ask, "Do the stereo mixes improve your enjoyment of the
music?"

Whatever your choice, it is nice to see the stuff published.


Tom

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"T. Hart" wrote:

> I do like Black and White movies, but the people in those movies
> were not in a black and white medium, that just happened to be the
> way it was recorded.
>

Absolutely. In very many cases, old films and TV programmes were
recorded in black & white simply because to do so in colour would
have been either too expensive or pointless - and so it is with
mono audio TV soundtracks - it's merely a matter of practicality.
There's no reason that a stereo remix can't retain the character of
the original, and in any case if it's done properly, it's likely
that listening to the two-channel mix in mono - assuming your amp
has a mono function - would be indistinguishable from listening to
the original mono track.