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From: Nil on 24 Apr 2008 20:09
On 24 Apr 2008, "XeNO" <xeno6696(a)nospam.never.cox.net> wrote in
rec.audio.pro:

> Just recently kicked up my Doors discography to my PC, and
> yeah-it's been years since I listened to them. Something
> interesting though, all the drums are hard-panned left, one of the
> guitars is there too, and the right channel essentially has the
> lead and most of the organ stuff. What the hell is the theory
> behind this?

Two factors...

- That album and most others were recorded on either eight, four, or
fewer. Sometimes several instruments were recorded in mono on a single
track or several tracks were bounced down to one to free up tracks for
more recording. There wasn't as much latitude for panning after that
was done.

- It took many years before the modern strategy for stereo mixing was
agreed upon. An early strategy was to consider the loudspeaker to be a
stand-in for the performer. In other words, the guitarist is standing
over on the left, and the singer is standing over on the right. The
farther apart you can separate them on the recording, the more dramatic
and bigger than life would be the effect. Remember, this is the tail
end of the days when people would buy records of ping pong games in
order to impress their friends with the ball going back and forth
between the speakers of their new Sears console stereo. It took some
time (and recorders with more available tracks) (and the death of mono)
before record producers decided that it was less distracting and suited
the music better to recreate a realistic room environment, including
more natural placement across the field.

Personally, I love those early hard-panned stereo recordings, and The
Doors is one of the best. They are dramatic, and can transport me back
to the days when I first heard stereo.

The clipping I hear on The Doors is pretty soft. If you hear something
"nasty", maybe its a later digitally introduced artifact.
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