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If I can get a word in here, you might want to consider auditioning"Orchestra" or "Gothic" which, while older sound, were not generally available.Gothic, in fact, was a serendipitous mixing mistake by Les Bradley. Bothsounds are absolutely monstrous. At a recent wedding gig, the guys I wasplaying with talked me into dragging the FX console along with me to playa couple of tunes. The happy couple asked if we would play "TCOTCK" (ata wedding??), so we obliged, and I felt compelled by the occasion to useOrchestra (mainly because both my flutes and the 3 violins are on the otherkeyboard and all on different stations (it was only a 4-piece band, sono real flute).
To make a long story short, none of the other musicians had heard mymellotron since I'd had Streetly put up a full set of tapes when it wasrestored (I formerly used it with two 400 sets -- six voices). The guitarplayer turned around with a totally stunned expression and asked, "Whatthe #$@^∗ have you done to that thing??" We did the job right and receivedenthusiastic applause from the under-50 guests and very puzzled expressionsfrom the grandparents.
In short, either of the sounds is well worth having. Mike's other suggestionsare dead on, too. Looks like you may be looking at two frames here, oldman!
Rick -- FX 10030 (How come I wasn't listed as being at the BBC?)
Gene Stopp wrote:
Thanks, Mike! I do like that idea. I guessI'd better go audition the sounds
again from the Streetly site. So Russian Choir, Hackett guitar,cor
anglais/oboe split - what would fit well together on A, B, andC?Hey - anybody going to NAMM?
Best Regards,
- Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: tron@... [mailto:tron@...]
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:04 AM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] stuff
> Russian Choir is a prime candidate, along with the Ian flutes,and
> let's see... what else... hey how about the Ted Taylor choir?An absolute must (IMO) is the new Hackett guitar. Another is thenew
cor anglais/oboe split.