Rhino Quadios - Batch 7 - Speculation

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I'd love to hear River Deep, Mountain High in Atmos or 5.1/quad for that matter. Bring it!
A wall of sound indeed.

Recorded at Gold Star in the Spring of '66. We would be lucky if they were 4-track by that point. Phil Spector might've even still been using 3-track for all we know. Doubt it would make for much of a surround sound mix. Even if it's 4-track, it's probably lead vocals, backing vocals, band track and one more for overdubs.
 
Recorded at Gold Star in the Spring of '66. We would be lucky if they were 4-track by that point. Phil Spector might've even still been using 3-track for all we know. Doubt it would make for much of a surround sound mix. Even if it's 4-track, it's probably lead vocals, backing vocals, band track and one more for overdubs.
Could these tapes have been lost in the Universal fire?
 
Could these tapes have been lost in the Universal fire?

It's my understanding - and I could be completely wrong - that the *BULK* of the items lost in the big Universal fire in '08 were a lot of production masters. You know, tapes that were sent off to places for producing commercial copies. But it was also a transfer station for items that were to be sent off to various storage places. For instance; according to Richard Carpenter himself.... the Carpenters' multitracks that were pulled for the 5.1 SACD project in the mid 2000's were sent to that location; intended to be sent back to storage.... however they did burn before they could be sent to storage. However.... he wasn't clear if they were safety copy tapes or the original multitracks from the 70's. (I would imagine they were safeties; I highly doubt the original multitracks would be used for anything even 20 years ago).... but all was not lost since they'd made digital copies of all those multitracks anyway.

It was long said that a healthy chunk of Buddy Holly's original tapes burned in the fire; only for them to show up in a video last year from inside Iron Mountain. So.... I don't know.... maybe I'm just trying to stay optimistic - but I don't think a lot of anything important went up in that fire. One report I read said that a large portion of what did burn was 2" video tape copies of TV shows and weren't music related at all.
 
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