Split Stereo: Who seperated vocals from instrumentals?

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So... Danger Mouse was able to fenagle "The Grey Album" because much of the Beatles recordings split vocals to the left track and the instrumentals to the right track. Let the list begin... ANY WELL KNOWN RECORDINGS THAT MAKE FOR GOOD FIXINS

― Josh Van Praag, Saturday, 5 March 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

velvet underground 'the gift'

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Saturday, 5 March 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

A lot of The Byrds stuff, I think.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Virtually any 2 track recording, such as The Beatles' first album and a lot of other early George Martin productions (the ones not featuring a full orchestra, because that one was usually put in both channels). The official releases of "Please Please Me" are in mono, but the bootlegged stereo version is easy to find on Soulseek.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 5 March 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

the bridge of Del Amitri's "Sticks and Stones Girl"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 5 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Sly and the Family Stone were thinking ahead when they panned the drum break in the middle of "Sing a Simple Song" into one channel, allowing for it to become one of the most sampled breaks in all of hip-hop history.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 5 March 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

germs - forming

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Gee-- any current R&B or hip-hop track with an acapella 12" to thread...
But please, make sure to take a long walk outside before deciding to do a 'mashup.' For the good of humanity, etc

― caspar (caspar), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

The Beatles had stopped that splitting thing way before the White Album, no?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

tons of soft machine stuff

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

"White Album" was an 8 track recording, which meant that there was still a limited amount of tracks (all of them mono), and you had to put a lot of the instruments in just one channel. Plus stereo was still new and exciting, and the musicians had yet to learn that there are some things you shouldn't put in just one channel (such as lead vocals, drums and bass)

However, the instruments in one channel, vocals in the other one, kind of stereo separation is mainly something you will find in recordings from the first half of the 60s.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah the first post is wrong, the White Album is not mixed this way, lead vocals are in both channels.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

If I remember from The Beatles Sessions correctly, about half of the White Album is in 4-track.

― Robert Myers (Robert Myers), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

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