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Phone in stereo, phone on stereo

A conversation with fellow closerlook blogger Jon Varner about the iPhone’s stereo headset reminded me of an instance in which a telephone was utilized in a stereo environment specifically to create a mono sound. The distinctive vocals on Dave Edmunds’ biggest Stateside hit, a cover of Smiley Lewis’ “I Hear You Knockin’,” were sung over a telephone line. I love that sound. I’m curious to know how, in the age of vocal filters that can be turned on and off with a click, how an artist going for the same sound might create it. Would he have to phone it in? Would a stereo phone do it, or would he be digging up an old rotary? Maybe resident audiophile Mike Tapson has an answer for us. Stay tuned.