Mellotronists

>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