Voice in one channel Instruments on other channel

[corElement]

Now that I'm using my d830's on my normal setup I've started to notice something a lot more starkly clear than before.

In a lot of the tracks I listen to the recording seems as if voice is sometimes on one channel and instruments on right. While on other tracks it's the opposite. And in some tracks they have specific instruments only on one channel and other instruments on the other channel.

It's like they were recorded this way with. Mind you this is only a few tracks, not all of them. In other tracks both are spread across both channels evenly.

I could notice it before on my e875 towers as well but on the d830's it's like a 0 and 1 distinction.

So my question is there, other than mono microphones, a reason for this kind of isolated separation? Or is it because that's how they wanted it to sound?

 

[alpha1]

I have heard MANY records where the hi-hats and snare are on one channel, and the cymbals on the other. Many records have two guitars, each hogging a different channel ...
But usually vocals (unless they are backup) are present on both the channels, (perhaps with some delays and flange/chorus between them).

Conclusion: That's the way they want it to sound.

 

[SatSon]

I have heard many albums of Yesudas produced by his own company "Tharangini Audio" where the Tabla will be on one channel, Mridangam on other, voilin simply on one channel, like that. Awesome recordings they were.
I think they were produced during the time when stereo recordings were introduced in India, and the sound engineers were recording it like that to produce the maximun stereo effect.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Tabla will be on one channel, Mridangam on other...

I have heard carnatic recordings where the mridangam is split into left and right. Horrible and very wrong!

 

[baijuxavior]

I have heard many albums of Yesudas produced by his own company "Tharangini Audio" where the Tabla will be on one channel, Mridangam on other, voilin simply on one channel, like that. Awesome recordings they were.
I think they were produced during the time when stereo recordings were introduced in India, and the sound engineers were recording it like that to produce the maximun stereo effect.

What a coincidence! I was listening to some Yesudas Albums of Tharangini while reading this thread. Yes you can hear the stereo recording where instruments of one kind plays in left channel, voice in right channel etc. It is very obvious even in my laptop speakers.