
Esquivel obsessed with achieving perfect stereo separation. From the liner notes of
Latin-Esque (1962):
"This album represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first time in the history of stereo recording in which the absolute separation of stereo has been achieved. To accomplish this, the orchestra was separated into two parts--half in Studio 1 and the other half in Studio 2, almost a city block down the long corridor of the RCA building in Hollywood. Through an intricate system of inter-communication by headphones, the musicians were able to hear each other and play together just as if they were all in the same room. The effects are startllng, the arrangements are daring, and when an instrument moves from side to side it can literally be said that the motion is almost a block long!"
Now that's Stereophonic High Fidelity
