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4 unusual facts about STEREO


4-track

The 4-track cartridge as an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s

Computer stereo vision

Scientific applications for digital stereo vision include the extraction of information from aerial surveys, for calculation of contour maps or even geometry extraction for 3D building mapping, or calculation of 3D heliographical information such as obtained by the NASA STEREO project.

Gravity assist

STEREO: a gravity-assisted mission which used Earth's Moon to eject two spacecraft from Earth's orbit into heliocentric orbit

Video tape recorder

The development of the videocassette followed the replacement by cassette of other open-reel systems in consumer items: the Stereo-Pak 4-track audio cartridge in 1962, the compact audio cassette and Instamatic film cartridge in 1963, the 8-track cartridge in 1965, and the Super 8 home movie cartridge in 1966.


90.6 FM Stereo

90.6 FM Stereo is a community-based radio station based in Vereeniging, South Africa.

Armet Davis Newlove Architects

Photographer Jack Laxer who did stereo pictures (3-D when polarized glasses are worn) took photos of the firm's work.

Big Generator

(like Yessongs, Yesshows and 9012Live: The Solos), Big Generator was finally remastered (with inverted stereo image) and expanded in 2009 by Isao Kikuchi, the album was published by Warner Music Japan as part of their "Yes SHM-CD Papersleeve" series.

Blackmagic Design

The camera can take video at 23.98p, 24p, 25p, 29.97p, and 30p with built-in stereo mic or 3.5mm audio jack which is supported by plenty of audio controls, but cannot take photo, although has a time-lapse function.

Cadillac de Ville series

In total, 4,168 had the standard Symphony Sound system, while 543 were ordered with the optional Bose stereo (310 with cassette, 233 with compact disc).

Canon PowerShot S95

Among other things, it features a thinner body, improved image stabilization, an automated HDR shooting mode, 720p HD-quality video recording with stereo sound, and a more ergonomic finish and controls.

Chipperfield's Circus

Chipperfield is now living in Berlin and is a successful DJ playing clubs across Europe and has worked with artists as diverse as Peaches, Robots In Disguise, IAMX, Angie Reed, Stereo Total, Planning To Rock, Bruce LaBruce, Heidi Mortenson, MEN, Kids On TV, Milenasong, The Fall, Damon Albarn, Stephen Malkmus and producers Alan Moulder (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins), Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Bruce Lampcov (David Bowie, Suede).

Crown of Creation

Crown of Creation was released in 1968 and is the fourth album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, released as RCA Victor LSP-4058 (stereo).

Edgar Villchur

The list of well-known artists who appeared with their AR stereo equipment in print advertisements included Virgil Thomson, Miles Davis, and Louis Armstrong.

Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver

After being released in 1995 "Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver" became one of Soda Stereo's better known songs together with "De Música Ligera".

Erich Leinsdorf

Later he again made additional operatic recordings, including the first complete stereo recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt, with Carol Neblett and René Kollo.

Evolution Records

Evolution Records was a record label operated by the Stereo Dimension Records subsidiary of the Longines Symphonette Society, a unit of the Longines watch company.

For the Night People

For the Night People was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3478 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7478 in stereo in 1966.

Geoffrey Sumner

A sample of "Train Sequence" ("This is a journey into sound") from the LP A Journey Into Stereo Sound (1958) was used by different artists like Coldcut in their remix of Eric B. & Rakim (Paid in Full), Bomb the Bass (Beat Dis), Public Enemy (Welcome to the Terrordome) and Anthrax (Potter's Field).

GTE

That same year Sylvania acquired name and distribution rights for Philco television and stereo products.

Haeco-CSG

In 1979 the Warner distributed label Sire Records issued a promotional single of "Pop Muzik" by M which contains both short and long versions in CSG processed stereo.

Hotel Chevalier

He then hurriedly attempts to tidy the room – pausing to play the opening bars of the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?" by Peter Sarstedt on his stereo system – and runs a bath.

Hunwick

Gem Archer, who has played guitar in bands such as Heavy Stereo, Oasis and Beady Eye, was born in Hunwick.

I've Been Loving You

Neither side appeared on any official album release until the 1992 "Rare Masters" box set (which featured previously unreleased stereo mixes of both).

In Person at the Americana

In Person at the Americana was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3375 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7375 in stereo in 1964.

Karplus–Strong string synthesis

The first musical use of the algorithm was in the work May All Your Children Be Acrobats written in 1981 by David A. Jaffe, and scored for eight guitars, mezzo-soprano and computer-generated stereo tape, with a text based on Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

Lost in Stereo

"Lost in Stereo" is a song by American pop punk band All Time Low and the third and last single taken from their third studio album, Nothing Personal (2009).

Lyrichord Discs

Always a label that explored an eclectic range of musical styles, Lyrichord happened to be the label to record and release the first album of late folk/blues legend Dave Van Ronk, entitled “Skiffle in Stereo” (1957) with a band called the “Orange Blossom Jug Five” including Dave Van Ronk, guitar and vocals, Sam Charters cornet, guitar, Ann Danberg, washboard, Len Kunstadt, (co-owner of the Spivey Records label) on kazoo, and Russell Glynn, playing jug.

Mastering engineer

A mastering engineer is one skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distribution, whether by physical media such as a CD, vinyl record, or as some method of streaming audio.

Milk Tray

The music was recorded commercially by Alan Hawkshaw on the album "27 Top TV Themes" (Studio 2 Stereo, 1972).

Minesh Mehta

Initially, in collaboration with a small number of brilliant innovators, this led to the creation of software for 3D radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery, resulting in the development of the early versions (initially referred to as “UW Stereo”) of what is possibly the most widely used software for 3-D radiotherapy and IMRT, PinnacleTM, currently marketed by Philips.

Multichannel audio

Surround sound, more than two channels though still technically stereo

Multichannel television sound

FOX was the last network to join around 1990, with the four networks having their entire prime-time schedules in stereo by late 1994 (The WB and UPN, launched the following season with their entire line-ups in stereo).

Penteo

Penteo claims that its technology results in a warmer, more natural and more precise sounding surround experience without generating any artificial & unwanted sounds, and only Penteo is 100% ITU down-mix compatible back to the original stereo track.

Slomotion

Disc One, dubbed Fast Forward, is a set of 8 new songs produced by Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly & Delerium) and DJ Iain, and also includes a remix of their song "Stereo" from Silent Radar.

SoftGenLock

SoftGenLock is a piece of software that provides Genlock and quad buffer page flipped stereo between a cluster of PCs.

Something Cool

Originally released on the Capitol label as a 10" LP (1954, mono) and a 12" LP (1955, mono), Something Cool was re-recorded in stereo with a slightly different personnel and released again under the same title in 1960.

Stereo Love

In the autumn of 2009 in Greece, Azerbaijani composer Eldar Mansurov contacted the Romanian Office for Copyright claiming the refrain of "Stereo Love" was a copy of a tune from his popular 1989 composition "Bayatılar".

Stereo Rodeo

Stereo Rodeo is the sixth studio album by the American bluegrass rock band Rusted Root.

Televisió de Catalunya

Local series and movies are usually broadcast in NICAM stereo, although sometimes an audio narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers is provided as well.

The Capitol Albums, Volume 2

Instead, the CDs were mastered from mixes prepared by Capitol A&R executive Dave Dexter, Jr., who, in 1965 took the submaster tapes from Capitol Records' vaults and added reverb to several tracks and simulated stereo on mono tracks (the proof that these are Dexter's mixes being the false start on "I'm Looking Through You").

The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads

The stereo four-input Ampex mixer is used throughout the album, which means that the instrumentation is either in one channel or the other, but the vocals and echo are in only one channel.

This Is Jackie DeShannon

This Is Jackie DeShannon is an LP album by Jackie DeShannon, released by Imperial Records under catalog number LP-9286 as a monophonic recording in 1965, and later in stereo under catalog number LP-12286 the same year.

United Western Recorders

In 1970, Jack Herschorn purchased the Universal Audio mixing console and a number of other pieces of equipment from that studio including UA LA-76A and LA-76B limiting amplifiers, UA vacuum tube power amplifiers (which were actually Dynakit Stereo 70 and 50-watt mono amplifier kits assembled into rack-mount chassis), Fairchild Conax sibilance controllers, Langevin graphic equalizers and Cinema Engineering filters, all originally installed in United Studio A in 1957.

Velodyne Inc.

The company evolved after founder and inventor, David Hall, competed in the 2004-05 DARPA Grand Challenge utilizing stereo-vision technology.

WAJI

WAJI was known as WPTH throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a sister station to WPTA television, and in the mid to late 1970s branded themselves as "Rock 95", using TM Productions' "Stereo Rock" Top 40 reel to reel automation package.

Walkman

A portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereobelt, was first invented by the German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel in 1972.

WEGA

At this point, they were known throughout Europe for stylish and high-quality stereo equipment, designed by Hartmut Esslinger amongst others.

Zeta Bosio

Between October and December of that year, Zeta Bosio and Soda Stereo played throughout Latinomérica once again breaking all records in the tour they called Me Verás Volver.


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