HW: Heard on Space Ritual

[John McCartney]

This is a common artifact, and is known as printthrough. It is from
the recorded magnetic pattern on a section of tape affecting the layer
of tape that's pressed against it when the tape is on the reel, a sort
of bleeding effect. You'll usually only hear it when there's a very
quiet or silent part that ends up 'next to' a section recorded at a
high level,which is why it's usually only noticed at the beginning of
a track.


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