I was just listening to Abandon by Deep Purple, it’s one of my favorite Steve Morse Deep Purple albums.
But of interest on the Album (released in the late 90’s) is the fact the 3rd track is mixed in Mono.
This was apparently an accident, and in fact I believe there was a single release where it was remixed in stereo.
I just want to point out how many people most people would assume would have had to sign off on that, and I’ll bet in practice it’s because for the most part the band and producer just trusted the mixing engineer, and it wasn’t noticed until too late in the process.
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I think also things had not yet gotten so corporate in the late 80s and things like this were likely more common and less noticed?
Cool find!
Ive found a few oddities going through my CDs again. I bought a used Stone Temple Pilots - Purple album and opening it up today i remembered there were two cds in there, both with different cd art.
I tried looking it up and i cant find any difference between them besides wiki just saying there were two different art pressings. I guess the previous owner wanted both cd arts?
Oddly on one he wrote SCC, SLL, SCL? I wonder if there is any difference that the knowledge of was lost in time.
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