Hey hey,
I got the tapeframe for my 25th birthday and decided that I wanted to go for a set of luxury sounds...Sounds that you might not be using to often but when you do they´ll be just right ( maybe a bit like Martins smooth organ )...So I went for Piano/Vibes w. Vibrato/Wineglasses
And naturally I probably use that set more than for instance the choirs because in my opinion...If you are using the choirs you are definitely making your BIG mellotron statement...A Vibes note here and there for that " bridge over troubled water " ambience ...A Piano chord pitch bended down with reverb and my favorite the wineglasses....Great to use instead of an ebow...They are sounds that are actually pretty easy to incorporate in almost any bands sound...
I think the Mellotron is so much more flexible than a lot of people think...It doesn´t have to be the three violins right ?
So now...I am aiming for a new set...I´d like to go for some MK II rhythms and fills, Mandolin tremoloes and Timpanis or solo female voice...But that will probably change a couple of times until I actually put in my order...
Mattias Olsson
Roth Händle Studios, Stockholm
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron piano
At 05:39 AM 7/8/2004, Mattias Olsson wrote:
>C´mon don´t badmouth the piano...I have used it a fair deal since I got it
>four years ago.
>
>A really spooky sound and of course if you add a bit of pitchbending you
>can get very Dali-esque
>effects...
The reason I purchased the piano sound was hearing it on Jerry Korb's Mark
I (that machine's a killer). I also got the "smooth organ" (which in no
way is any reference to any one of Martin's body parts) and the rock
guitar. Hence the "dreary set".
Had I known the sounds better, I might have gone for the lower 1-2 octaves
of the rock guitar and the lower 1-2 octaves of the oboe as a set to free
up a sound selection for something else. Each of those sounds in the upper
octave become somewhat grotesque to my ears, but in the lower registers
they're fine. I wish the oboe was recorded an octave lower (if that's
possible in the range of the oboe).
...kl...
M400 #805 - needs more octaves
M400 #1037 - needs more working keys
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