"Keith G"
I have a number of (predominantly jazz) mono albums I want to 'digitise'
and they present me with an interesting dilmma - whether to record them as
'dual mono' or 'mono mono'..??

So, is there any convention or meaningful reason why they should not be
recorded as 'dual mono' if I choose, or indeed is there any merit in
recording them thus?? One thing I notice is the spitchy bits (no cleaning
on these samples) are nicely moved into the middle and in some way buried
in the mono transcriptions, but I do hear other interesting differences!


** The interesting thing about surface noise on a vinyl LP is that it is
always in stereo !!

In the case of a mono LP, the music is gonna appear smack in the centre of a
pair of stereo speaker - if everything is well matched up.

This makes it possible to mentally " tune out " such surface noise as it is
not coming from the same direction as the music but rather from the far left
and far right of it.



....... Phil