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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Klaatu

From: fdoddy@...
Date: 2006-05-09

If it was a low frequency flange then it was due to tracking error.
Vinyl mastering engineers HATE low end flange/chorus/stereo doubling.
hard to get the lathe to cut it.


fd

-----Original Message-----
From: charel196 <charel196@...>
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:14:50 -0000
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Klaatu


it's too bad that speaker rumbling flange at the end of Little Neutrino
didn't
sound as
intense on CD as it did on the LP...





--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Dale" <chris.dale@...>
wrote:
>
> As far as I know it's the same sound but eq'ed differently.
>
> There's no doubt that it's a 400. The 400 Cello sound is in Calling
> Occupants as well, and the present owner of the Klaatu tron (can't
recall
> his name) was at Tronto in 2001 I believe.
> Dan Miso - would you remember who this was?
>
> When the Klaatu album first came out in 1976, there was a lot of
speculation
> that it was the Beatles reformed under a new name. The main hint
being that
> one of Ringo Starr's album covers had Ringo dressed as the Klaatu
character
> from The Day The Earth Stood Still (a superimposed face over Michael
> Rennie's). There was also the vocal style in Sub Rosa Subway which
emulates
> McCartney's singing. Ditto for Dr. Marvello (George Harrison). Also
- no
> production / music credits were listed anywhere on the album. And
Little
> Neutrino has to be the only song lyrically accurate about sub-atomic
> particles passing from the sun!
>
>
> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bernie Kornowicz
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Klaatu
>
>
> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, kenmerb@ wrote:
> >
> > Bernie,
> >
> > "Calling Occupants" was done on an M400, not a MKII. I did an
> instrumental
> > version a few years back on my M400 and the Mellotron sounded
> pretty close
> > (except for the backwards intro I threw in there). I had the MP3
> out on my
> > "TronSounds" web site for a long time before the site went down.
> Let me know if
> > you'd like to hear it, I'll send you the MP3.
> >
> > I think the name of the first Klaatu CD was 3:47 EST, and it had a
> big
> > picture of the sun on it. Their best stuff was on that album
> (CD). Along with
> > "Calling Occupants", a song named "Dr. Marvello" featured
> Mellotron (flutes &
> > 3-violins), but I can't recall any others with
> Mellotron. "Subrosa Subway" is
> > another great song fron that CD,and "Little Neutrino" has some
> interesting synth
> > sounds. None of their other albums featured Mellotron (excep for
> a snippet
> > here and there), or had songs as great as the first one, IMHO.
> >
> > Ken M.
> > M400 #1217
> > MK II #247
> > (both soon coming out of storage in Dallas)
> >
>
> Ken, do you know if they used the M400 Violins? The string sound
> on "Calling Occupants" seems to have a sound very similar to the
> MkII 3 Violins. I have the MkII 3 Violins on my M400 and they sound
> quite a bit different.
>
> And yes, I'd love you hear your version :)
>
> Bernie
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