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URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-Fanderson-UFO-CD-arrives-tp1500994p1501009.html

--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> >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.

Correct Marc, except of course there would have probably been many
microphones and/or line feeds from the various instruments which
would have been "grouped" down to four channels for the 4-track
recorder. If you take The Beatles recordings as an example, up to
1968 much more care (sometimes with the Beatles themselves in
attendance) was taken over the MONO mixes, with the stereo ones being
done very quickly later on - and this for an LP release.

Even though 4-track recordings were made of the UFO music, and 8-
track on Space 1999, they would have still been thinking of MONO all
the way as the final product (being a TV series).

Personally, if I'd been re-mixing any of these 4-track recordings
into stereo, after the initial placing of the instruments (panning) I
would then monitor the mix in MONO while adjusting levels - so as to
remain reasonably faithful to the original balance of the individual
tracks.

> 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.

I was going to say I'm sure the folks at Fanderson know what they're
doing but your statement here Marc is slightly worrying.

Jonathan