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Title: Mono Mixes
Post by: exposedbrain on October 23, 2008, 10:25:08 AM
maybe this has been discussed before, but once the Beach Boys started to mix there albums in stereo would brian have a mono mix made for himself. and if so would there be mono mixes even of his recent solo albums? i think it would be interesting to hear an album like BW 88 in mono


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: Andrew G. Doe on October 23, 2008, 01:47:34 PM
maybe this has been discussed before, but once the Beach Boys started to mix there albums in stereo would brian have a mono mix made for himself. and if so would there be mono mixes even of his recent solo albums?

No.


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: Joshilyn Hoisington on October 23, 2008, 01:55:01 PM
For a little while, attempts were made to let Brian monitor stereo mixes-in-progress in mono (using a contraption devised by Desper), but that didn't seem to last beyond the 60s.


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: MBE on November 17, 2008, 07:46:21 AM
I would guess Brian used the mono device until the studio was taken out or Desper left. Which was a period of six months or so.


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: Andrew G. Doe on November 17, 2008, 10:12:39 AM
I would guess Brian used the mono device until the studio was taken out or Desper left. Which was a period of six months or so.

The studio was dismantled and part of it (the monitors, I seem to recall) used for the Dutch jaunt in early 1972, shortly after SWD left the BB's employ. Like aeijtzsche said, the 'mono fold-down monitor' widget was used for Friends and 20/20.


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: Alex on November 17, 2008, 05:19:30 PM
maybe this has been discussed before, but once the Beach Boys started to mix there albums in stereo would brian have a mono mix made for himself. and if so would there be mono mixes even of his recent solo albums? i think it would be interesting to hear an album like BW 88 in mono

Just do a fold-down yourself in Adobe Audition, Audacity, or another audio editing program.


Title: Re: Mono Mixes
Post by: MBE on November 17, 2008, 10:16:10 PM
I would guess Brian used the mono device until the studio was taken out or Desper left. Which was a period of six months or so.

The studio was dismantled and part of it (the monitors, I seem to recall) used for the Dutch jaunt in early 1972, shortly after SWD left the BB's employ. Like aeijtzsche said, the 'mono fold-down monitor' widget was used for Friends and 20/20.

Yeah I knew some of it was used in Holland. Didn't some stuff get damaged there because of the different circuts?