Automatic double tracking delay (or, in the phaser, a variable phase network). Other notable uses of ADT doubling echo are apparent on select material by Elton John. Some examples of this can be heard on Nigel Olsson's drums, especially the tom toms, on songs such as Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me from the Caribou album, as well as Better Off Dead and Someone Saved My Life Tonight on Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy. ADT became the standard recording studio technique for simulating double tracking throughout the late 1960s and 1970s until the arrival of digital technology in the
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy terms with failure—or trying desperately not to be one. We lived that story." John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the album than perhaps any previous record they'd ever done to that point. As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (as with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings. Producer Gus Dudgeon was apparently also very satisfied with