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In message <IE54HWRMUPLI4XB0RPA8RLNM6Z6JF.3f0c8a19@Charlie_Drake>, Steve 
Dove <dsp@hifidelity.com> writes
>Hi Geri,
>
>Fell about laughing . . .
>
>"Tubular Bells" (and many, many other records) were done at "The 
>Manor", a converted
>country mansion residential studio owned by Herr (What cheque?) Branson 
>in the wilds of
>central Oxfordshire, not very far away (<50km?) from GBR.  "Bells" was 
>if not the first,
>very close to the first, record made there;  in younger spottier days I 
>worked for the
>company that built the mixer.  The studio was in the shambolic throes 
>of construction,
>gear heaped everywhere,  if you could negotiate around the resident and 
>nosey Great
>Danes. Ground loops everywhere.

I can confirm this sort of thing. I once spent weeks trying to get Radio 
Moscow (SW) out of a sound mixer in Dublin. I got it to the stage where 
it was just audible with full gain on everything, and there it stayed.

Mike
-- 
M.J.Powell