Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Calling All Ears - Trying to Get *That* Sound
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2002-08-05
In a message dated 8/4/02 5:56:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rick@... writes:
When Ian was up here last fall for Tronto MkII, I had a long discussion about how the first KC album was recorded--specifically the mellotron. Here's what he remembered: Get one of those honking big Neumann U87s or U47s
Play the mellotron through a HiWatt stack, turned up fairly loud
Throw on lots of reverb at the mixing end and a bit on the amp/tron (if you have a MkII) end
Stand back and make the hair stand up for everyone on your street (assuming you're doing this in your basement).
Cost: about $7k
Results: priceless
Hmmm........Dig a basement, $20,000.
Hiwatt stack? Guess my POD wouldn't work? ;-)
Maybe I need to consider setting this beast up to be mic'd. It does have two lovely Warfdale speakers which sound great, I just don't want to frighten any small children.
Has anyone tried recording one of these beasts through a microphone?
Is there really a difference?
Ken M