How to Do Things Properly

This chapter simply covers how to do things properly by recording true stereo sound, which was invented by Alan Blumlein in 1931, although not properly used before the 1950s. This is mostly because, until the advent of the tape recorder, there was no easy way to record stereophonic sound. Blumlein had managed it in the laboratory, but then, he was a genius. He did define clearly the methodologies for recording stereo, even though the technology was not there at the time. In the 1950s and into the very early 1960s, audio engineers in the classical music field followed these principles and made some wonderful, true stereo recordings, which we may still hear today. But then most of them were overtaken by multi-track technology, and they forgot the art. This chapter shows you how to do it again and produce true stereo recordings.