Thanks for posting. I remember he recorded mono but I forgot where I read this:
Cradle, whose title was borrowed from Walt Whitman's poem, 'Out Of The Cradle, Endlessly Rocking', developed during two years of painstaking labor at Buckingham's southern California home studio, and it was cut strictly in mono. "There's a certain denseness apparent in the way we recorded things, and mono was the best way to get that across," he explains. "I wanted to create an aural soundstage where a listener could isolate certain sounds at certain points in each song, as opposed to ingesting a standard-issue stereo spread. That's why I recorded almost all of my solos direct with no speakers involved. In fact, only once did I use the lone amp in the studio, a MESA/Boogie with one 15" speaker. If I had done numerous guitar overlays – you know, Tom Scholz-style, with 50 Pignoses surrounding me – it would have become one big mess."
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