Nektar - Remember The Future 1973 - Full Album - Digitally Remastered 2002
Remastered by Paschal Byrne from the ORIGINAL STEREO MIX MASTER TAPES in 2002.
History:
a) Wrong tape used for the first CD:
The original Bellaphon CD release had benn mistakenly made from the abandoned original master from August 1973 and bore no relationship to the original vinyl release. After much careful research the original stereo master was located and remastered to compromise this reissue. Remember The Future now has the CD release it deserves with full approval of Nektar.
Remember The Future was recorded at Chipping Norton Studios in the English Oxfordshire countryside in August 1973 and took just over one week to record. From the beginning the decision was made to mix the album for the Quadrophonic sound system. At the end of August, Roye Albrighton and Mo Moore took the completed multi-tracks tapes to CBS Studios in London for Quadraphonic mixing. Unfortunately, upon arrival in Germany it was discovered that there was a technical problem with the mix, which resulted in certain instruments being inaudible.
A further Quadraphonix mix was undertaken at Dieter Deirks studio in Stommeln, along with a Stereo version in September 1973 to everyone's satisfaction
b) The problem with Vinyls with SQ Quad encoded:
SQ Quadraphonic (\"Stereo Quadraphonic\") was a matrix 4-channel quadraphonic sound system for vinyl LP records.
With matrix formats, the four sound channels (forward left, forward right, back left, back right) are converted (encoded) down to two channels (left, right). These are then passed through a two-channel transmission medium (usually an LP record) before being decoded back to four channels and presented to four speakers.
SQ is compatible with two-channel stereo, but there are some problems. The front channels are totally compatible, the rear channels have a smaller width. But the great problems are the sounds between front and rear. They will turn to the left and the middle point of the room goes only to the left speaker in 2-channel stereo.
When played on two-channel stereo equipment, the front channels sound like ordinary two-channel stereo channels; the rear channels are narrower than the front channels. A problem occurs with the sounds placed in the center rear. The point directly behind the listener is out of phase in stereo playback, causing it to disappear in one-channel mono listening. The left-rear and right-rear points are 3 dB lower in two-channel stereo listening, and 6 dB lower in mono listening.
The SQ encoding is based on the work by Peter Scheiber and further developed by Benjamin Bauer. His basic formula used 90 degree phase shift circuitry to enable enhanced 4-2-4 matrix systems to be developed. This 4:2:4 process could not be accomplished without some information loss. That is to say, the four channels produced at the final stage were not truly identical to those with which the process had begun.
