May 12, 1978 Gusto feature: Remixing
A nuts-and-bolts look behind the reworking of two albums that I already loved in their original versions. May 12, 1978 Gusto feature Remix: The fine art of remixing recordings Recordings, unlike some other works of art, are not graven in stone. Even after a record has been issued, the basic musical elements can be shaped and reshaped in a process called remixing. Mixing takes multiple studio tracks (commonly 16 or 24) and boils them down into two-channel stereo. Remixing and a second process, remastering, is what sets the second version of the Spyro Gyra album, the reissue on Amherst Records, apart from the first edition, the privately issued disc on the group’s own Cross-Eyed Bear Records. Contrary to popular rumor, Spyro Gyra itself instituted the revisions. The group also was responsi...