After making ten successful sound on sound passes, a mistake during the
eleventh pass would effectively erase all ten previous passes, and it
must have occurred to Les that a way to avoid this disaster would be to make a
safety dub of the tenth pass.
But how could he make a dub if he had only one tape recorder? He
could have made a disc dub, since he had a lathe. Or, he could have taken his
tapes to Capitol to have dubs made. But presumably he did neither. I sure would
like to ask him about this.
It is interesting to me that after he got the eight-track (octopus)
from Ampex, he never again (in my opinion) made the kind of brilliant recordings
which he'd made with his modified mono deck. (Like the centipede which, asked
how it could coordinate the motion of all those legs, could never walk
thereafter?)
As for tape delay, check out his brilliant "I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles", where the repetition rate of the delay fits perfectly the tempo of that song.
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