https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 06 May 2026 07:43:19 +0000 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:29:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5353 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=25229&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#25229 Author: BradOlson
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Posted: 16 February 2010 at 5:29am

But then, there are cases when rechanneled pressings are mostly true stereo such as the Mitch Miller Greatest Hits LP that 7 out of the 12 tracks are true stereo.]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:29:12 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=25229&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#25229 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=25227&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#25227 Author: KentT
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Posted: 15 February 2010 at 8:43pm

At least with the Mercury Rechanneled Stereo discs, playing only the Left channel gets you true mono. The Right channel was very reverbed. Nice that you can get mono out of one if needed. ]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:43:18 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=25227&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#25227 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24931&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24931 Author: TomDiehl1
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Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:53am

Yah Shure wrote: I have one, count 'em, ONE 45 in my entire collection that is actually labeled as "electronic stereo."   "What I'm Saying Is True" was Steam's follow-up flop to the #46 "I've Gotta Make You Love Me." I'm guessing that the latter's relatively poor chart success prompted the Mercury brass to order the Steam assemblage to come up with another "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." And they did. "What I'm Saying Is True" was a virtual clone of their #1 hit, and if the complete lack of originality didn't kill the record, its much-too-buried vocals did the trick. It got about two weeks of airplay on KDWB, then vanished forever. I do actually like the record, but it was a dead duck before it ever got off the drawing board. What's odd is that the stereo/mono DJ 45 of "I've Gotta Make You Love Me" (Mercury DJ-182) was in true stereo. Commercial copies of the non-LP "What I'm Saying Is True" were mono. True mono, to be precise.

That Steam 45 is one of my favorite records of all time....i have both the stock and promo copies of the 45.... really annoyed me that the "stereo" side was in really horrible faked stereo. I bought it hoping for a true stereo copy of the song, but it never happened....even when the seller swore to me it was true stereo.... when i got the 45 and found out it was fake stereo, the seller did give me a refund, and still let me keep the 45. I have the song on a Japanese best of CD where it isn't 100% mono but to human ears is as close to mono sound as one can detect (cancelling out the channels does show it does have a very light echo on it). ]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:53:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24931&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24931 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24928&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24928 Author: AndrewChouffi
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:37pm

To Hykker:

Of course you own the Taragon release 'The Very Best Of Red Bird & Blue Cat Records' with the first-time true stereo "Baby Be Mine"...right?

Andy]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:37:50 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24928&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24928 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24927&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24927 Author: Yah Shure
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 7:34pm

eriejwg wrote: Is re-processed stereo the same as electronic stereo?

Yes, John. In Pat's parlance, reprocessed, fake and electronic stereo are all variations of the same "spin stereo from a mono source" trick, and are all designated with that scarlet letter of sound quality, the (E) symbol.

I have one, count 'em, ONE 45 in my entire collection that is actually labeled as "electronic stereo."   "What I'm Saying Is True" was Steam's follow-up flop to the #46 "I've Gotta Make You Love Me." I'm guessing that the latter's relatively poor chart success prompted the Mercury brass to order the Steam assemblage to come up with another "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." And they did. "What I'm Saying Is True" was a virtual clone of their #1 hit, and if the complete lack of originality didn't kill the record, its much-too-buried vocals did the trick. It got about two weeks of airplay on KDWB, then vanished forever. I do actually like the record, but it was a dead duck before it ever got off the drawing board.

What's odd is that the stereo/mono DJ 45 of "I've Gotta Make You Love Me" (Mercury DJ-182) was in true stereo. Commercial copies of the non-LP "What I'm Saying Is True" were mono. True mono, to be precise.

Edited by Yah Shure]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:34:37 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24927&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24927 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24924&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24924 Author: eriejwg
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:08pm

Is re-processed stereo the same as electronic stereo?]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:08:51 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24924&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24924 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24922&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24922 Author: Hykker
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:07pm

Later on the labels "improved on" muddy-tinny fake stereo by using a comb filter, which sometimes gave almost convincing results. This is a device that puts even octaves on one channel and odd octaves on the other. I have some that were processed this way, and you'd have to listen carefully with earphones to realize it was faked.

RCA for a while would either leave one channel dry and put reverb on the other, or use different reverbs on L&R. Truly awful.

One really annoying side effect of some of these methods of creating fake stereo is that they messed with the phase, causing weird cancellation if summed into mono. One song that really suffered from this on almost every compilation it's ever appeared on is "Baby Be Mine"--Jellybeans. I don't know if the mono source tape got lost and this echo-y, phase-y source was all that was left or what.



]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:07:27 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24922&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24922 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24920&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24920 Author: Brian W.
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 1:12pm

It means "fake stereo" from a mono source. They usually either slightly offset the mono mix in the two different channels to create a sort of stereo ambiance, or they make one channel very bass heavy and the other very treble heavy.]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:12:34 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24920&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24920 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24917&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24917 Author: Fetta
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 10:54am

I am putting "Them featuring Van Morrison" into my hard drive and one of the tracks ("Stormy Monday")says Re-Processed Stereo. I was wondering what that meant?

-Fetta]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:54:14 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5353&PID=24917&title=what-is-reprocessed-stereo#24917