Mellotronists

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.