The recording sounded fine for MP3. But you have to understand that MP3 tosses out much of the sound quality in order to compress the digital signal into a small data file. The sound that is thrown away includes some of the harmonics that are essential to the natural sound of acoustic instruments and the human voice. It would be better if you have it on CD at 48khz which loses almost no sound frequencies. Apart from the fiddle break it sounded Mono. You may also try to increase the sound mix across the left/right stereo spectrum. Hope this helps.