I Hear These Sounds In My Head....

[bty997881]

Hi Ken
     Not sure about a trim-phone, but I'm fairly sure I can hear a bit of 'pre-echo' just before the second note  of that slide phrase.
 It can happen when a tape that was recorded a bit 'hot' is not stored properly, ie. is kept 'head' out instead of 'tail out', as it should be. 
 The result is 'print through' where some of the tape is imprinted with signal from the layer above, forming a kind of echo in reverse.
 Storing a tape tail out, doesn't actually prevent print-through, but at least it comes out as a proper echo, which is more acceptable.
 The classic example is the "Waaaaay down inside...." solo in the middle of 'Whole Lotta Love', but then that is so noticeable, I have a feeling they must have done it deliberately.
 But of course you know all this!
Cheers
Roger

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> Am I going mad, or can anyone else hear, about 15 seconds in to the playing of the old "Pickin The Blues" Peel sig by Grinderswitch in full, in the John Cav tapes of shows of 19/12/75 and 28/12/76, the utterly unmistakeable sound in the left channel of a seventies trim-phone ringing, twice? It's under the start and end of the first slide guitar phrase.
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> I only noticed listening loud on headphones during ripping monitoring, and at first and second times tore them off believing a phone had rung somewhere in the house!
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> If anyone agrees this extraneous sound is there, (a) is it what I think it is?, and (b) how did it get there?
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> Is it on the original single or LP master?
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> Or did it creep in when Peel or Walters were maybe making a full reel copy for repeated sig purposes?
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> Or am I just going mad?
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> ken
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