will@sdchema.UUCP (06/08/83)
M May I suggest we start looking for songs that work best in stereo. For example: After the Fire - Der Kommissar With a good system that separates the stereo signals well, this song is fantastic. It really makes you feel that you are in the 7th row back, dead center of the auditorium. Yes, now you can see - even feel - the guitarist on the right...now on the left...now the singer in the center...but enough of the marmalade skies. The Who - Babba O'Riley (sp?) Hearing this with great separation makes you sit back in awe. It makes you sway from one side to the other...you can feel your eyes darting back and forth. It's hard to get the true feeling for these without a walkman type personal stereo. With true separation and good sound there are some songs that literally take your breath away. Any more submissions? Will
spaf@gatech.UUCP (06/13/83)
You want some suggestions for good use of stereo effect in records?
Well...
The ending of ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery" album switches from
channel to channel at quite a rapid clip, and through good
headphones is enough to make one rather dizzy.
Get the half-speed master of Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow" album and
listen to "Diamond Dust" and "Cause we Ended as Lovers." the
album is breathtaking, but those two pieces are especially good.
The regular pressing isn't too bad, either, but if you like
the album and have a good system then the 1/2 speed version is
worth the extra bucks.
Some Pink Floyd albums are very good with headphones, but you need
a good pressing. Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon, for instance.
Dark Side of the Moon can be had on an original master pressing.
Others when I think of them.
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...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!spaf Atlanta, GA 30332hazel@hogpc.UUCP (06/14/83)
How about the 12" single "One More Shot" by C-BANK? CAUTION: Meant to be played LOUD.
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (06/14/83)
A recent comment mentioned Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery as having an interesting stereo effect at the end, where a "computer-like" sound effect switches rapidly from speaker to speaker. In reality, this is really a Quad effect. When this album came out, Quadrophonic was in its brief heyday, and the Quad release of the record had the effect that the sound was moving in a circle around the listener, assuming you were sitting in the middle of your speakers, and had them positioned in the right order. This effect defaulted to a back and forth movement in stereo. As a side note, when ELP played at Univ. of Illinois, at around this time, the noise at the end of this song was actually produced by a "robot" that rolled on stage (very much like R2D2), and started spinning around, while emitting the sound. After spinning around for a while, it blew up (intentional), and when the smoke cleared, it had vanished. Although all this seems pretty stupid now, at the time I was quite impressed. Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611, Bell Labs, Naperville, Ill.
ajk@houxe.UUCP (06/14/83)
Some other excellent tunes to listen to with headphones for awesome stereo: Deep Purple - Lazy Pink Floyd (on Ummagumma) - Several Small Furry Creatures Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving with a Pict Led Zeppelin (on the first album) - Dazed and Confused
TOPAZ:fantods@ucbvax.UUCP (06/14/83)
My pal in Denver reports that the best usage he heard was on 4-track versions of the first two Jean Michele Jarre albums.
paveleck@ihldt.UUCP (06/16/83)
Here are a couple of other albums with songs that can be considered good tests for one's stereo. The Cars' first album has a song called "Moving in Stereo" (how appropriate!) where the first few lines' sounds alternate from one side of your stereo to the other. Other examples can be found in an early Queen album called "A Night at the Opera". (At that time, Queen was more into hard rock and unique vocal harmony, rather than the more mainstream, top-40 material they've done lately). I don't recall the exact song titles offhand, but this album and the Cars' music mentioned before are pretty interesting to hear through a pair of headphones.
davido@tekid.UUCP (06/16/83)
Inna-Gadda-da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
michaelk@tekmdp.UUCP (06/21/83)
The most impressive *stereo* "effects" that I have heard is my Candide double album (you know, the Dick Cavett theme music came from it...) when played through a Sound Concepts image expander. Tremendous. That musical play apparently was generated with real microphones with real stereo, rather than "fake" stereo generated by mixer (dual channel audio vs. "stereo"). The *very* wide image is VERY impressive. I would assume the new (Polk I think) imaging speaker system would have the same effect on this album set. I have not found any "rock" album to have any noticeable expansion (presumably due to the mixer generation that lacks "proper" image information). Note: the expanded image is WIDER than the speaker spacing by quite a bit. Mike Kersenbrock Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products Aloha, Oregon
za16ao@sdccsu3.UUCP (Lady Arwen) (06/27/83)
how about 'the voice' by moody blues? the sounds seem to leap through the air from one speaker to the other...wow.