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Hello again,
Not to beat a dead horse, but in recording samples, in general, particularly
in digital modeling, digital sounds don't blend.
I recorded a record some years ago in which three songs utilized real tube
guitar amps. The rest, per the request of the client, were done with an amp
modeler. The difference during mixdown was plain as the hole in your arse. I
had a bitch of a time getting the modeled sounds to blend in order to create
that "oneness" you get from several distorted guitars layered over each other.
No matter what I did they maintained seperation and indiviuality. The real
amps blended into a creamy wall of guitars.
This would be one explaination why mellotron samples, when playing
chords, sound flat and strange. No criss-cross between harmonic points.
-Jack Younger