The Mellotron Group

Every now and again I notice a electrical poping sound when I play a note on my tron, it seems to be completely random, in fact I think it can happen when I am not playing a note. I notice that it is present in quite a few of the M-tron samples so it isn't just my tron. I am curious as to the cause but not probably bothered enough to fix it, especially if it involves spending lots of money or taking the machine to bits.

Any ideas?

Mark

Hi Mark,

Is your machine properly earthed as it could be static discharge.  You may be hearing bias pops, often present in some classic recordings.  Mainly where there is a sine wave based sound (flute)beating with the recording bias.

M 

mellotronics.co.uk

On 4 Jul 2010, at 02:24, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Every now and again I notice a electrical poping sound when I play a note on my tron, it seems to be completely random, in fact I think it can happen when I am not playing a note. I notice that it is present in quite a few of the M-tron samples so it isn't just my tron. I am curious as to the cause but not probably bothered enough to fix it, especially if it involves spending lots of money or taking the machine to bits.
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> Any ideas?
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> Mark
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