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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] MKII Pops
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2002-11-22
In a message dated 11/21/02 10:40:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, rick@... writes:
Well, Ken, I listened to them all, and I don't have an answer. With the McDonald flute, the MkII flute and my French Horn, there are no pops or dropouts--at least on my mellotron. I can only speak for the French horn, but I certainly couldn't do something like that while playing and I know it didn't go down on the DAT like that. I've also heard the master tapes for Ian's recording and it is brilliant
Rick,
Just to clarify here, I don't have a problem with any of the flute recordings.
There are two types of sound problems I'm noticing. The first type (and primary one for me) are the pops. These aren't actually recorded on the tapes, there's just some kind of discharge taking place within my MKII which is all over the audio on bank #1 only. So, it's specific to my machine.
The second type of problem ∗is∗ recorded on my tapes, and affects the French horns ( it's not your playing, more like audio dropouts on three notes ) and the single Russian choir note ( looping-type sound ). There's nothing I can do about these now, so I just wanted to report them.
Ken M.