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In Reply to: RE: "Simply miked recordings from the dawn of stereo..." posted by JBen on February 14, 2012 at 08:01:25
Interestingly, Blumlein was very aware of the ability of stereo to reproduce depth. I understand it's mentioned in his first patent.
I once saw a demo stereo sound movie Blumlein made back in the 30's at a SMPTE NY section meeting. He walks around the stage talking. It was projected in an ordinary movie theater but not only could you hear his lateral position, you could hear his distance from the mics. Much superior to what we hear today.
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I'll bet that was an optical track, not magetic.
Too much is never enough
Yes, I was always impressed by the amount of good audio signal that those optical film tracks could hold.
Like Josh mentions, it must have been a custom rig in those days.
It would have been, they didn't have AC bias then. I don't remember whether he actually did a Dolby-stereo-type side-by-side optical track on the print, or whether he just ran two interlocked optical tracks on dubbers (or built something custom -- I'm not sure when interlocked dubbers came into use).
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