In message <IE54HWRMUPLI4XB0RPA8RLNM6Z6JF.3f0c8a19@Charlie_Drake>, Steve
Dove <[email protected]> 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
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