[geeks] Stupid recording engineers

[Dave McGuire]

On July 23, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> I was listening to a CD at a volume lower than usual.  I heard a sound
> start, and was hearing the drums, but was wondering why I couldn't hear
> the mandolin that starts the song off, and could only barely hear the
> base guitar.  Then I realized that my headphones had accidently been
> set to mono, and that the recording engineer obviously never bothered
> to check whether the CD was mono safe.  Lazy (wo)man.

  Yes but how big a deal is that, *really?*  I haven't seen anyone
listening to anything in mono in probably twenty years.

      -Dave

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