listening to old jazz on headphones, aka drummer in my right ear and clarinet in the left
@mallaidh old records during the initial stereo panning phase are nearly unlistenable with how far paned they are.
@LANthus oh yeah, it's just such and such mics on one track and the other mics on the other track. most all the beatles stereo releases are like that, which makes mono not that bad of an idea
drums might've just been carrying over to both mics, like when the loud instruments had to be way back when recordings were still a single-mic affair.