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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!strath-cs!fulcrum!igb
  2. From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.audio
  4. Subject: Re: Recorded using B&W speakers
  5. Message-ID: <BzpwKA.GGG@fulcrum.co.uk>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 15:04:58 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec22.231924.12811@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Dec23.060351.14779@news.columbia.edu> <BzptF8.DD5@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
  8. Sender: news@fulcrum.co.uk
  9. Organization: Fulcrum Communications
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  12. In article <BzptF8.DD5@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
  13. > Somewhere I read that recording companies in the 60s took the exactly
  14. > opposite approach when mixing-down pop tracks: the last stage in the chain
  15. > was the sort of speaker you'd find in a cheap trannie on the beach.  Since
  16. > that was where their product was aimed, that was what they balanced it for.
  17.  
  18. That's current practice, I'm afraid to say.  On rock material it's a
  19. lottery what's happening below 100 Hz.
  20.  
  21. ian
  22.