[LAU] How is the bass mixed? Per-channel frequency analysis? Histogram?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 11:28 -0500, Joe Hartley wrote:
> Bass is almost always mixed to the center
> 
> That said, if you're listening to old Beatles stereo mixes, the bass
> will only be on one channel

Correct and not only the bass has got deep frequencies and not only the
Beatles mixed that hard left/right for the older stereo recordings, but
when I read your first sentence, I was thinking of the Beatles too, to
disagree with that claim. Btw. those old Beatles recordings aren't bad
mixes, many of them are very good. Right now I'm listening to the record
single Eleanor Rigby by head phones, backside of Yellow Submarine. It's
even pleasant to listen to such a hard left/right mix on headphones,
quite psychedelic what they did to the vocal mix by separating it. I
read that all Beatles recordings were remixed by compressing them to the
loudness war, if so, then for sure the balanced hard left/right stereo
mix won't be balanced and psychedelic anymore, since an important part
of those mixings is the dynamic range.