Re: [Mellotronists] Hallowedground Hi Martin,
GO FOR IT! That way we've even more ammunition against thosesamplers owning twits who think they've got 'as good as' the realthing. It'll also show the Melly in even more glory.
Mind you, the intro to 'Watcher of the Skies' may never sound thesame again. Roundabouts and swings.......
Best wishes,
Dave.
Now here's one for you and we'd welcome yourcomments...................
Just recently we have been asked to tune up originalrecordings. One instance was the MKII Flute and the other wasthe MKII Brass. Both these recordings are amongst the mostpopular ever in the Mellotron Song Book.
As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinionthat all our favourite albums were made with the sounds as theywere originally recorded. However, the tuned up versions soundedfantastic and even seasoned pedantic bastards like us agreed that itwas wonderful not to have to find chord inversions to avoid THATNOTE!
Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that halfhis time was spent trying to find smooth chordal progressions thatkept in tune as best as possible and he had favourite notes in theM300A violins that he tried to always avoid.
There are so many dire notes amongst the recordingsthat you become over aware of when making tapes and thetemptation is to fix the buggers. So what do you think about alteringhistory even if the end result makes things a lot easier touse?
Best,
Martin