Boxed - TB

TB: Se suavitzen les transicions, es repassen les aristes de les parts elèctriques més barroeres. La veu de Viv Stanshall s’envia més al fons, i se substitueix Sailor Hornpipe per la versió original amb Stanshall passejant-se borratxo per The Manor.

Fent el remix de TB, Philip Newell veu que alguns instruments, inclós el piano, cal enregistrar-los de nou. També les campanes tubulars, perquè ni es van poder fer servir les originals ni van fer servir martell de fusta, sinó forrat amb teixit, fent un so més tou. El cor femení també es modifica, l’orgue “reed & pipe organ” també. S’ajunten nous instruments com una guitarra al final de la cara B.

2.11 What are the differences on the Boxed remixes? (FAQS)

If you have Tubular Bells and Ommadawn on either CD or LP, you have the original mix.

When Phil Newell began work on the Boxed remix of Tubular Bells, he discovered that some instruments - including a piano - were missing from the multi-track tape, and had to re-record them.

The difference is particularly noticeable in the climax of Part One, where the bells are softer (they were sonically distorted on the original recording). Mike had more or less destroyed the original set of Tubular Bells by hitting them with coal hammers (Mike says he used a sledgehammer), so a new set was bought and recorded. A quadrophonic remix was made prior to the Boxed version, so the bells are likely to have been recorded then. The "reed & pipe organ" sounds much more like an organ than the buzz on the original mix - this also sounds like a fresh recording. The girlie chorus is a semitone lower and more ethereal. There are also a few instruments in the four channel mix which were not used on the stereo mix, such as extra acoustic guitar at the end of side 2.