Re: [ARSCLIST] stereo or double mono

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For starters, just listening in mono and stereo should tell you if there's any
notable difference.

Some labels used to reissue old recordings by playing mono tapes in stereo
(Atco on LP, London on CD) and those sometimes had a bit of stereo spread (or
the result of dirty playback heads or unbalanced channels) and sounded pretty
slushy in mono.

dl

Dave Rice wrote:

> Hi Arsc-L,
>         Does anyone know any software or process where I could quickly
> analyze a stereo audio file and find out if it has two different
> tracks (stereo) or if it is just double mono. I have a number of
> audio files that were recorded digitally which I suspect are double
> mono but is there a way to make sure. It seems like a piece of
> software could just subtract left from right and if the difference is
> 0, then double mono.
> Thanks,
>
> David Rice
> Archivist
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