engineering mistakes on recordings

I was listening to a live album recently, I can't remember the title at the moment, but whoever mixed it changed the locations of the different players on every track.  A little too much creativity I think.

Unless it's a blatantly experimental, clever approach, I prefer a natural, realistic presentation of the instruments and voices.  +1 for Steely Dan.

Most of the young engineers today have had no experience recording a whole band, group or orchestra at the same time so when they go to mix the individually recorded instruments they have no feel for what that shoul sound like. When I started in 1963 we were still recording to mono so everything was done together. Nothing like that happens anymore. Also Protools made many people engineers who shouln't be
Alan

@ahendler 
My point exactly. They never learned the fundamentals.

T-Bone Burnette's Truth Decay LP was originally on a small independent label, and the last song on side one ("Driving Wheel") had a false ending; after a brief silence, the song started back up again, playing through a fade-out. When the album was remastered for LP release on a different label, the mastering engineer cut off the song at the false ending!