Stereophonic recording?, L/R balance Options

[HTS]

What does stereo recording achieve? I noticed that the left and right channels of some stereo samples don't sound the same, and loaded them into audacity. The program confirms my suspicion that the sounds vary greatly in characteristics. For a vibrato filled note, most often only one of the channels displays the wavy pattern induced by the vibrato. Is this what stereo recording is supposed to do? So the sounds mixed into your music will have certain instruments placed to the L/R side of the listener?

[Paulhoff]

What does stereo recording achieve? I noticed that the left and right channels of some stereo samples don't sound the same, and loaded them into audacity. The program confirms my suspicion that the sounds vary greatly in characteristics. For a vibrato filled note, most often only one of the channels displays the wavy pattern induced by the vibrato. Is this what stereo recording is supposed to do? So the sounds mixed into your music will have certain instruments placed to the L/R side of the listener?

Yes, you didn't know this? How you ever hear people in a group all sounding like they are in the same place when not using a sound system.


Paul

[HTS]

Yes, you didn't know this? How you ever hear people in a group all sounding like they are in the same place when not using a sound system.


Paul

Recordings aren't supposed to be like that. Foobar has the crossfeed feature precisely because of this characteristic of early digital recordings.

[Paulhoff]

Yes, you didn't know this? How you ever hear people in a group all sounding like they are in the same place when not using a sound system.


Paul

Recordings aren't supposed to be like that. Foobar has the crossfeed feature precisely because of this characteristic of early digital recordings.

I have no idea of what you are talking about. I've hear the same thing since the begining of stereo, in fact the very early recordings had only left and right sound, and nothing coming from the center, so they come out with so-called 360 sound that had the same sound (for the vocals) coming from the left and right channels to make it sound as it they where in the center. Stereo channels do not have to be the same, that is how one gets a spread in the field of sound.


Paul