Posted by
lunadude2001 <russell_smith@ntlworld.com> on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Theme-tp1498171p1498221.html
I know Pye studio 2 had multi-track facilities installed circa Feb/Mar
'69 so if the the UFO music was recorded after that date it could have
been recorded on multi-track. However, Pye were notoriously frugal,
and arch exponents of recycling session tape.
I also doubt anything exists from Pye studios as thier tape library
was at Mitcham south London and fell into disrepair in the mid '70.
When speaking with the tape Liberian, who was still working with
company until a few years ago. remembers when she started working
there, most of the tapes had fallen out the boxes, and it got so bad
it was like wading through
a sea of tape. She had just started to putting it all back in order.
When the building burnt down and all existing session tape was
destroyed, fortunatly the production tapes were kept at a seperate
location.
4 and 8 track is generally deemed as being different from
multi-track, maybe a misundertstaning here.
Any way we [and I in particular] are are in danger of dissapearing up
own arse on this one :-) so lets move on to something more
interesting.
Marty.......
--- In SHADO@y..., "Marc Martin" <marc@u...> wrote:
> I believe Barry Gray had a studio built into his basement, and
> the UFO theme was recorded there. Most of the music from UFO
> was recorded at "Barry Gray Studios", but some of it was also
> recorded at Anvil Films Denham, some at "CTS" (?), and some
> at Pye Studio 2.
>
> And I really can't recall if the session tape for the UFO
> theme was 4-track or 8-track. Although my memory tells me
> that it was 4.
>
> And there was never any intention to release a UFO soundtrack
> album, so there were never any stereo mixes done. For some
> of the music the original multi-track session tapes exist,
> while in other cases only the final mix that Barry recorded
> for himself exists, while in a few cases (e.g., some of
> THE LONG SLEEP), nothing exists.
>
> Marc