August Abolins - Dallas Hinton:

>   DH> Yes. One of the best recordings I ever heard (and I don't
>   DH> remember any of the details now) was a symphony orchestra
>   DH> recorded with a single microphone hanging centrally from the
>   DH> ceiling. It shouldn't have had any stereo effect but it
>   DH> certainly did!
>
> Can't they add those effects later?

Adding artificial stereo, including stereo reverb to a
single-micorophone monophonic recording would ruin the purity and
beauty of the recording technique. If one wants stereo, one should
start by recording in stereo.

On the other hand, search for "accidental stereo" for many
interesting results!

> I believe that's the same technique that was accomplished from
> the original mono recordings by the Beatles.

Not quite. With The Beatles, they probalby re-mixed the original
multichannel tapes (or their copies, for magnetic tapes have to be
copied once in 20 years or so, losing quality!) in stereo by
panning some or all of the channels more or less off-center. It not
true, time-based stereo, but its loudness-based surrogate.

I have both of those orange-blue Beatles box sets where the first
half of each CD has a sequence of mono tracks and the second half --
a sequence of corresponding stereo tracks. Whereas my loudspeaker is
monophonic, I never listened to the stereo half :-)

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