Origin Of Cross-Fading Guitar On Albums?
 

Cross-fading is basically when a guitar line starts in the left speaker and then finishes in the right i.e. "crossing over". It was very popular in the sixties, Hendrix did it a lot but im not sure if he originally started this technique.Can anyone enlighten me?

I'm not sure about guitars, but I know Cage, Stockhausen and the like did a lot of stereo things on their 40s/ 50s electronic stuff. I would imagine in rock it'd be Link Wray or someone like that.

Actually, the correct term is "panning." Cross-fading is what DJs do when they mix LPs together.
There are an awful lot of novelty-style "EZ Listening" Lps from the early days of stereo that go crazy with this stuff; it was certainly around before psychedelia hit the scene. When stereo was first introduced, quite a lot of records were made to sort of "demonstrate" its dimensionality, with mixed results.

Brilliant! I found a picture of one of my favourite charity shop acquisitions of this year.




That's got oodles of high quality stereo effects on it. It's a great listen.

November 1957 is the release date, and still sounds fresh today. Winner!

There are actually several records with that syringe/"doctored for stereo" theme on the cover. Super weird.

Yeah, I just found a load while I was looking for it. I'm going to keep a keen eye out for more of them, particularly the bongos one. And then perhaps I'll start a blog, which not even I will be bothered to read.

could someone maybe upload some early exapmles of panning of music? I'd love to hear some songs from back then with that effect.