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AES New York 2007
Historical Event H4 Sunday, October 7, 2:00 pm — 4:00 pm
H4 - SURROUND SOUND: QUADRAPHONIC SOUND IN THE 1970S—RECORDING CLASSICAL MUSIC
Moderators:
Robert Auld
Andrew Kazdin, Formerly Producer for Columbia Masterworks
Charles Repka, Formerly Engineer with Vanguard Records
Max Wilcox, Formerly Producer for RCA Red Seal
Abstract:
Starting in 1969, the record industry tried to introduce “the next big thing”—four-channel or “quadraphonic” sound for the home. The result was mass confusion as two tape formats and no less than five disc formats competed in the marketplace. In the middle of all this, producers and engineers did what they have always done—made the best
recordings they knew how to make for present and future playback systems.
Many of the veterans of the “quad wars” are still with us. This presentation will feature a distinguished panel of producers and engineers who will play excerpts from quad recordings of classical music that they helped make, and discuss the rise and fall of
quadraphonic sound.
[This is the second part of a two-part session. Part 1 is titled "Surround Sound—The Beginning 1925–1940.]
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