In a message dated 6/5/2010 9:52:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, soundsgreatmusic at sbcglobal.net writes: greetings, is it just me or does the string section in the instrumental portion of the recording nights in white satin sound a few cents off from the other orchestration and this song's vocals? i hear it in other rock songs too... anyone? julia gottshall reading pa It might have been a mellotron. They always sounded sour to me. They worked on recorded tapes triggered by each key. Maybe if the voltage was off that could have effected the tuning. Also back then R&R songs were mastered with little regard to A440, not to mention radio DJ's often spun songs on turntables faster than 45rpm or 33rpm. But the difference between the tuning of the vocals and the mellotron I'd think the singer probably had the mellotron turned down in his headphones while he recorded his vocals to the band. T, Ayers Highland NY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100605/b2e234ba/attachment.htm>
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