Hi Ken,
I don't know why this should happen only with multiple notes. I
sometimes get a "bump" sound at the beginning of the odd note
and that's crap on the tape. If I clean it just before the heads with
IPA it goes away. Is your pad assembly tightened down properly?
I'm wondering if it's moving when you engage a full chord.
On the magnetic fields thing - does anyone know if it's safe to put
a pc moniter ontop of a tron. I don't want to wipe me tapes!
John
M300#005
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kenmerb@...Date sent: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:41:28 EST
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Various topics
In a message dated 11/19/2002 2:30:04 PM Eastern Standard
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Magnetic fields from other instruments?\u000f
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In the process I find that there\u000f
are certain instruments that when placed upon my creaky
old Hammond cause a\u000f
nasty hum to come out the Leslie. I have tracked this down
to the location\u000f
of the mains transformer in the offending instrument relative
to the drawbar\u000f
matching transformer in the Hammond.
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When I first got my MKII, Ken L and I were taking her through the
paces, while I had Martin Smith on the phone, giving me
instructions.\u000e Any time I came close to the MKII, there was a loud,
annoying hum that came out of the speakers.\u000e Ken L could go near
it and no hum.\u000e Talk about rejection - it was almost as if #247 was
allergic to Merbler (or maybe my magnetic personality was having
an effect).\u000e We soon discovered that the cordless phone I was
holding was causing the hum whenever I came near.\u000e\u000e \u000f
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Currently I am having another preplexing problem which is proving
much harder to solve.\u000e Seems that #247 is now making a loud
"popping" sound whenever I play multiple notes, bank #1 only, RH
side only.\u000e It's almost as if it's rejecting my choice of sounds on
that bank ;-).\u000e This is causing despair on both sides of the Atlantic
at the moment.\u000e Brilliant solutions are welcome.\u000f
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Ken M.\u000f
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