>My guess is that it might be something that inadvertently happened in your
>machine.
My guess (FWIW) is that the French horn notes got messed up during the
recording of Ken's tape set or maybe it's the tape stock, not in the
mastering. Rick and/or Martin would have caught the problems in the
masters, I'm sure. The sound is not unlike the burbles you'd hear in the
soundtrack of an old movie---it's not cars or doors or Vicki inventing new
four-letter words.
Another guess about something else: The pops are static. Where/How I do
not know. JB is leaning away from that, and I don't blame him, because to
disagree with me usually means you wind up being correct. Why it happens
on only one station is beyond me, and why it builds up so fast and on only
certain notes is, again, weird. Heads going bad? I have suggested to Ken
to examine and clean all the connections in the box as a start.
A third guess about something different: The Russian Choir is either
looped on the source material or it's a bizarre recording accident, like
one of the singers moved during the recording, like Fritz's French horn
guy. Only I think the Russian guy ran around the room really fast, doing a
poor Leslie simulation. :-) One reason why the Russians may not be looped
is they ran out of vodka...no, wait...is because the tail end of the note
has a single voice finishing off the note (as some of them do---it's
weird/funny to hear the aaahhhs die down to one voice and then stop). It
really does sound like the middle part of that lowest note is looped,
though...bizarre. Hey, it could be wave interference, a guy hopping on one
leg hoping the note will finish so he could go the bathroom, or
whatever. Killer sound, though.
$.02, FWIW.
...kl...M400 #805 - worth more than $.02