The originals were out of tune? fooled me....
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tronbros@...To:
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.comSent: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:14:10 EDT
Subject: [Mellotronists] Hallowed ground
Now here's one for you and we'd welcome your comments...................
Just recently we have been asked to tune up original recordings. One
instance was the MKII Flute and the other was the MKII Brass. Both
these recordings are amongst the most popular ever in the Mellotron
Song Book.
As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinion that all our
favourite albums were made with the sounds as they were originally
recorded. However, the tuned up versions sounded fantastic and even
seasoned pedantic bastards like us agreed that it was wonderful not to
have to find chord inversions to avoid THAT NOTE!
Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that half his time was spent
trying to find smooth chordal progressions that kept in tune as best as
possible and he had favourite notes in the M300A violins that he tried
to always avoid.
There are so many dire notes amongst the recordings that you become
over aware of when making tapes and the temptation is to fix the
buggers. So what do you think about altering history even if the end
result makes things a lot easier to use?
Best,
Martin
STREETLY ELECTRONICS - All things Mellotronic
www.mellotronics.co.uk
www.mellotronics.com
US East Coast Agent - Jimmy Moore
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