A good quadraphonic recording can sound much more "real" than stereo or monophonic recordings.

The album contained both stereo and monophonic recordings.

The advantages of the 45/45 system are that it has greater compatibility with monophonic recording and playback systems.

The title is a reference to a Phil Spector slogan, advocating monophonic recording.

A monophonic recording is one that only uses one channel because mono, or one, only requires the use of one microphone.

Artificial stereo techniques have been used to improve the listening experience of monophonic recordings or to make them more "saleable" in today's market, where people expect stereo.

The Beatles in Mono is a box set compilation comprising the remastered monophonic recordings by The Beatles.

The difficulty of handling the wire itself when necessary was arguably the only serious shortcoming, among several definite advantages, of steel wire as a monophonic recording medium.

The album was released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3546 as a monophonic recording and LST-7546 as a stereophonic.

By manipulating the dials, the sound engineer could take a monophonic recording of a passing car and make it sound to the listener as if it were passing behind them in a particular direction.

Conversely, and with the benefit of no damage to any type of disc even from the beginning, a stereo cartridge reproduces the lateral grooves of monophonic recording equally through both channels, rather than through one channel.

Love Letters was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3231 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7231 in stereo in 1962.

Stereophonic sound recording, which attempts to provide a more natural listening experience by reproducing the spatial locations of sound sources in the horizontal plane, was the natural extension to monophonic recording, and attracted various alternative engineering attempts.

Decca Records used a system of colour-coding on these sleeves where a blue color denoted a stereophonic recording while red denoted a monophonic recording (the mono record players of the time were not always compatible with stereo records).

The Four Seasons Greetings was the second LP album by The Four Seasons, released by Vee-Jay Records under catalog number LP-1055 as a monophonic recording in 1962 and later in stereo under catalog number SR-1055 the same year.

This Is Jackie DeShannon is an LP album by Jackie DeShannon, released by Imperial Records under catalog number LP-9286 as a monophonic recording in 1965, and later in stereo under catalog number LP-12286 the same year.

One could envision a system in which the left channel was recorded laterally, as on a monophonic recording, with the right channel information recorded with a "hill and dale" vertical motion; such systems were proposed but not adopted, due to their incompatibility with existing phono pickup designs (see below).

Their recording technique was essentially the simplest and least cluttered imaginable: monophonic recordings were made with a single microphone kept in one position throughout the session, with no change in recording level; stereophonic ones were made with one microphone for each of the three channels, which were then mixed down into two for playback.