California Sun - Rivieras Stereo ?

Would you by chance be the world famous Bud Buschardt?

As a former radio deejay, I've admired your work for many years...if it's you. :)

My copy is mono, but now I'll start searching for STEREO!

Mark:

I just came across a copy online of what sounds exactly like DES.

How does someone create a DES if all they have to work with is a mono track?

Hi all,

I'll also send up a wave of welcome to Bud!

For Tom: (Hi Tom! Tom and I go way back to the BSN Stereo chat board ...) Yes, there are some distinctions between synch-ups, and what you or I might call "DES" but over the years i found that trying to split hairs about the differences didn't work well, so i gave up.

For Aaron: Well, each track can be a different story. Since I created the "California Sun" mix i'll explain that one. (yes, i left out that the first cdr of that originated with me ;-)

It's a simple repeating arrangement, the music they play for the instrumental intro repeats thru-out the song. So I took segments from the intro and the middle break, and edited them all together to make an "instrumental" of the entire song. Then in the analog domain, I played both sort of "DJ style" using 2 cd players with pitch wheels (dj version of 2 turntables) to synch them together. This took many tries because I assure you the drummer's tempo in that is quite "freestyle".
Then back in the digital domain i edited together all the sections that came out in best synch. The stereo reverb was added by the board i was using when synching them.
The result sounds much like a stereo synch-up of the vocal version with an instrumental version, a method done many times back in the analog era when there was no multi-track, but someone located an undubbed instrumental track for a song. I did not invent the idea, but it inspired me to try it on a lot of stuff.
It's merely a cool way to hear what it might have sounded like in stereo.
This particular one i made in 1998. (wow, where did 10 years go!).

Now, the term "DES" got coined when this and other mixes started surfacing in the computer sound editor age. Digital extraction implies some kind of digital filter was used to "extract" a vocal or other elements from a mix to create an illusion of stereo. This method has met much criticism because it often leaves behind artifacts that make the music sound strange.
Synch-ups tend to sound more believable because usually that only adds an "echo" or a delay of some type - which was common anyway in 1960's stereo mixes.

But, I've rambled on enough..i hope some of that explanation was helpful!

-Mark M
    

Hi Todd,

No problem at all. Send me an email and i'll get it to you through one of the upload services.

-MM