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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron piano

From: "Mattias Olsson" <Mattias.olsson5@...>
Date: 2004-07-08

Don´t want to be that way...but I have 18 sounds...the normal ones I guess...So I like the idea of expanding into oddness...As I have mentioned earlier on the list..I have recorded an album with just Optigan/orchestron/Mellotron + female vocals and the weirder sounds definitely came very handy...The strangest sound I have now is Hammond B3 bass pedals with single Hammond notes on top...very messy for chords but single notes work just fine...
 
// Mattias
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Leonard
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron piano


>I got the tapeframe for my 25th birthday

Wow - whoever got this for you is certainly a keeper!  I don't know anyone
who'd support my Mellotron habit.  I think most of the people I know feel I
should be in rehab (well, for a variety of reasons).

>( maybe a bit like Martins smooth organ )...

I wouldn't recommend Martin's smooth organ.  It's always flat.

>So I went for Piano/Vibes w. Vibrato/Wineglasses

I'm glad to see the less often used sounds do get some airing once in a
while.  And, yes, pitch shifts and bends do make the sounds more versatile.

>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...

Jimmy M. is going through this exercise now for tapes for his FX
Console.  I think the talk of the various sounds out here is helpful.  You
have to get the standards - Flute, Brass, 3 Violins, Choir.  But then he
has 32 other sounds to fill in---of both old and new sounds!  Yikes!!!  :-)

Gee, what an awful "problem" to have, huh?

...kl...
M400 #805 - all talk - no action
M400 #1037 - 33 talk - 2 no action

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