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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?
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lowrider57
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Jimmy Page corrected the L,R channels on the remaster. Many of the original LZ 1 releases had reversed channels, some were correct.
I have different pressings of LZ 1, some have guitar on left, some on right.

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uberwaltz
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So basically in the ops example which is his basis for this deranged thread JP was just making things right in 2014?

Maybe a bit of fact checking before posting crazy conspiracy theory threads is in hand.
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The swapping of channels on a recording or remaster has happened over the years, sometimes it’s individual songs and not album sides. This happens during the production chain, orders are not passed down from the record label. It’s usually blamed on the mastering engineer.

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https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/list-of-reverse-channel-stereo-digital-albums.487020/

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/reversed-channels-on-recordings.447279/



honeybee2012
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Sam here, Sam there, Sam everywhere.  If you turn around, the tracks will be correct.  Problem solved, thank me later.
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