"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"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 !!


Certainly is when you are playing it, but it gets nicely buried (to a point)
when transcribed to a mono recording!



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.


A 'dual mono' waveform is a good visual check for the overall channel
balance of the recording/replay sysytem!



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.


And is always 'up front and in your face' when the music 'soundstage' goes
*way back over there*! The trick I suspect successful vinylistas manage to
achieve most of the time is simply to follow the music and ignore the
fireworks off to the side!