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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
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 12:22:03 1983
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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.