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Brian Gaff wrote:
Which reminds me. Many of the Beach Boys stuff was in mono but the
other day a radio station played a track from Pet Sounds and it was in
real stereo, so it has me wondering.

IIRC, Pet Sounds made much use of the then quite new multi-track recorders.
If those tapes still existed, it would be much easier to create passable
stereo from than a single track mono.

I don't like to mention TV sound on this hallowed group where only the
ultimate is considered relevant, but coming much later than the recording
industry to stereo - not until the '80s - there were by that time lots of
gismos around to produce 'stereo' from mono. And they were all, to a
greater or lesser extent, a waste of time. With only extremely limited
use. Certainly never for music of any sort.

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