Re: RE:Fanderson UFO CD arrives!
Posted by Marc Martin on Jun 13, 2003; 1:18pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-Fanderson-UFO-CD-arrives-tp1500994p1501008.html
>Barry Gray recorded the original music for UFO in full stereo.
That's a somewhat misleading statement. Barry Gray did NOT record
this music in stereo. He had 4 microphones in the studio, which were
recorded 4 isolated tracks of music. He NEVER mixed these tracks
down to stereo. He mixed them down to mono.
For this Fanderson CD, the original 4 track recordings were taken and
mixed down to stereo for the first time (except for the music for
IDENTIFIED and THE LONG SLEEP, which only exists in mono). Of
course, since we know what the music sounds like in mono, it makes it
easier to get the levels right (even though I wasn't completely
satisfied with the levels chosen for the Space:1999 CDs). But any
special effects that Barry applied to the original recordings - like
adding echo at the end of the main theme - had to be done again.
Someone sent me an MP3 of the new stereo mix of the main theme, and
it sounds like they applied an echo to the entire track, which I'm
not sure is an accurate or not. It doesn't really sound right to me,
but I reserve judgement until I hear the original CD on my stereo
system.
Marc