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Marvin Gaye 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'
Marvin Gaye 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'
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(b) Describe the use of the stereo field between 0:00 and 0:30 (3)
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(c) Why was the panning to such extremes in the 1960s in comparison to modern recordings? (2)
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(d) A mono version of this recording was also released at the same time. Why did record labels in the 1960s
produce both mono and stereo versions of a recording? (2)
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(e) Soul recording studios often used the most up-to-date recording technology of the time. How many tracks
would the tape machine in a well-specified soul recording studio have at the start of 1969? (1)
A 1 track
B 4 track
C 8 track
D 24 track
TOTAL: /10 marks