Hello!
This is a bit late in the game, but I only get to
this page every so often lately...
As far as looped and tracked "10cc" vocals, it's
really quite easy and I've used it at the studio many
times for a pad of breathless vocals.
My method is to track about five to ten seconds of
each note you want to a 1/4" or 1/2" 2-track. You
can maximize by recording seperate notes one at a time
on each track. Cut and loop it. Play the loop back
to two tracks of your multitrack and record it through
the whole song. Repeat the process as many times as
you have track space for and then bounce the whole kit
and kaboodle to two tracks for stereo, running the
faders according to the required performance.
The result is striking. I call it
"create-a-tron" and it can be used for many different
sound sources.
Good luck!
-Jack Younger (EMI 103S -the Bastard 'Tron)
---
chris.dale@... wrote:
> I don't know about cutting the tape and using it as
> a loop.
>
> I do know that they overdubbed around 100+ voices
> and that they played the faders for the volume
> swells in that song.
>
> And of course, theyre using the Gizmotron for the
> cello sound and background noise as well. You can
> hear that same noise on the track Lazy Ways from the
> How Dare You album. It sounds interesting without
> the choir voices.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Hi, all-
> Thought I would throw another wrench in the fire
> (probably replete with erroneous 70's memories,
> too).
> It seems I read once that 10cc used a large
> multitrack
> recorder to create a playable choir of their own
> voices on the song "I'm Not In Love". Once the
> vocal
> tracks were laid down on the same area of tape,
> the
> section was cut out, and spliced in a loop. It was
> loaded back on the machine (with appropriate
> tension),
> and played off a mixing console using the solo
> buttons
> as a keyboard. I don't know where I read this, but
> it
> stuck in my mind for years. Maybe a similar idea
> was
> used by those clever Germans.
>
> Bruce Daily
> M400 1221
>
> P.S. I admit to playing my 'tron "solo" in my
> living
> room (no mixer yet). So far my friends just smile,
> scratch their heads, and mumble something about
> "could
> be done digitally". Oh well, what do they know?
> I'm
> happy.
>
> --- charel196 <charel196@...> wrote:
>
> > let's not forget the "Singing Keyboard" from the
> > 1930s, which was a tron/Chamberlin idea
> > using movie film as the medium and light to read
> it
> > a/la Orchestron. I'd love to hear any
> > examples of it....somebody back then had to have
> > made a recording....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Andy
> > Thompson" <andy.thompson@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: NormLeete@...
> > > To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 11:18 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Solo trons
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 22/04/2007 23:02:29 GMT
> > Standard Time, andy.thompson@...
> > writes:
> > > an early European one-off attempt to use the
> > > Chamberlin/Mellotron idea, with infinite
> > sustain
> > > I thought it was a modified Mellotron...
> > >
> > > Norm
> > >
> > >
> > > Norm
> > >
> > > What little I've been able to find out about
> it
> > seems to indicate that it was built in the
> > '50s! It also sounds unbelievably complex to
> play,
> > making the 'MkII rhythms' technique
> > dound like a doddle. :-) It allegedly resides in
> > 'a west German museum' now, so if
> > ANYONE has any idea which...
> > >
> > > Andy T.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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