Posted by lunadude2001 <russell_smith@ntlworld.com> on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-Fanderson-UFO-CD-arrives-tp1500994p1501012.html

I'll add my penneth'worth here, Marc is quite correct the studio
recordings were NOT stereo! Also, the final recordings were NEVER EVER
intended to be in stereo. Barry Gray would have been thinking about
the finished product as being in mono from the outset. I also think it
is highly unlikely these tracks were recorded as [true] multi-track
recordings, four track perhaps - Multi track and four track are a
quite different formats. Multi-track facilities were very thin on on
the ground in 1969. Certainly Pye Studio No 2 did'nt have multi track
facilties until much later. This is why a lot of artist on the Pye
roster used relocate to Morgan Studios.

It is entirely likely that the four track recordings, once they had
been mixed to mono, would have perhaps even been been compressed to
take into account the limited frquency range of audio facilities of TV
before being added to the sound mags of the film.

If there was ever an intention to produced a 'proper' stereo mix at
the time, Barry Gray would have still had to carry out mono reduction
excersise before the soundtrack was transplanted onto the film.

I would also point out that Barry Gray was notthe only artist that
recycled studio. It was very expensive commodity and many artist or
record company had a similar policy.

Let's keep this debate in context it is nice package and well
produced, the mono mixes in my opinion are far superior to the stereo
mixes and I'm for one glad they are included. I would have preffered
more, but as alluded in the liner notes they seem to have either been
lost or the tape reused.

As Phil Spector said "Back To Mono"

The Lunadude.


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