Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Best stereo usage Message-ID: <354@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 12:22:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxk.354 Posted: Tue Jun 14 12:22:03 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 02:52:55 EDT Lines: 18 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.