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l just discovered another one of the record companies dirty tricks?

Sam here and why is it that so many remastered digital and vinyl albums have the (L) + (R) channels swapped from the original released version? it’s a fact that we associate memories with the music we were listening to at the time and by swapping the channels the brain does not associate the music with the memory and we don’t remember how good we used to have it and how good real music made us feel. When jimmy page released the 2014 zep digital and vinyl box set everybody noticed that once again the channels were swapped?
guitarsam
teo_audio
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channel phasing effects can be off, when you swap channels.

the mix...is the mix...in most stereo albums. They are NOT dual mono.

properly done 'stereo' has specific ambience cues which are phase sensitive, complex micro and macro in situ phase sensitive, with a dual channel aspect in a given perceived instrument position....and swapping channels means that the stereo effect is then ...totally messed up.

Thus... one is forced to deal with the record or source material (stereo material) as it comes/arrives/exists. 

If one swaps channels in a stereo mix..invariably... the instruments seem bunched at the one left or right speaker, and sound as if the sound is turned slightly inside out, and the center fill is gone..everything is sonically a mess, essentially.
guitarsam OP
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Sam here and teo_audio1 is right on the money well done friend.My point is that lf the record company swaps channels on remasterd versions of vintage albums there is an alterier motive behind it? For example the 1st buffalo springfield album has been swapped and I remember hearing the 45rpm of for what it’s worth on you tube and it’s just like i remember however the remastered digital version is swapped and it simply sound off.lf it was mono who cares. Why would jimmy page delibertly swap the channels on the 2014 zeppelin reissues both digital and vinyl? Before i even knew what was going on the 2014 vinyl remaster of zep 1 sounded different than i remembered i could not put my finger on it but if was not right and after hearing a 1st press on youtube from 1969 and i knew the channels had been swapped and it totally effected the soundstage.
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flatblackround
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I don’t see how or why this would be a “dirty trick”.  If you are correct, a screw up probably.  Like MC, how many have you found? Which ones?  
edcyn
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Ah yes.  A screw-up? Or an exercise in evil?
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uberwaltz
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At this rate Sam you will soon have uncovered all of the nasty record companies evil little tricks and secrets.
Big bad scary monsters.
So glad you could share all of this with the forum.........
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