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From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:09 AM
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> My understanding from reading an article contemporaneous to the album
> (possibly in Rolling Stone) is that they used the multitrack recorder
> almost as a fader-controlled Mellotron, with many tracks (if memory
> serves, something on the order of 48 tracks just relegated to this)
> each one containing one sustained vocal note, and that during
> production, they just "played the faders" to bring in and fade out
> specific pitches to build the harmonic structure of the song.
>
> I'd sure like either confirmation or supported contradiction on this.
> Listening to it with smarter ears now that I'm older and have been
> doing this for a while seems to confirm the likelihood of my ancient
> recollection, but it would be nice to have that authenticated.

That's what I've heard, too. ∗Definitely∗ not a Mellotron, anyway!

Andy T.