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Today's CD Review on BBC Radio 3 carried an item titled Session Report:
"Simon Heighes visits an unusual recording session at the Royal College of Music – where students and early recording experts have teamed up to recreate Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic’s 1913 recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. The original recording, one of the earliest one and most successful attempts to record an entire symphony using (close to) a full orchestra, used an acoustic horn to cut into a wax disc. Simon talked to participants in the 2014 re-enactment about the challenges of re-creating a recording process that pre-dated the use of electronic microphones."
Speaking of Microphones , and the History of SAGA / ARC records (45s/33s) where it was mentioned that one company was recording orchestras with one microphone , how did that company produce stereo records? Were they tone splitting in post production?
You just can't get stereo out of a mono recording. All you can do is EQ it to (for example) emphasise bass, and stick that in one channel, and EQ differently for the other channel. Fake stereo.