Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Agreed Frank - and listening to any Roy Thomas Baker, Nick Chapman or Mutt Lange-produced record also evokes a particular musical sound. I like Tony Clarke's production work - you can hear a definite improvement through the 'classic seven' Moodies albums and even especially on the Blue Jays album. Pip Williams and Tony Visconti made a show of it, but the sound was different for certain.

Vance

On 10/11/2011 7:23 PM, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

 

What's not to like? Alan Parsons was substantially responsible for Dark Side of the Moon.

 

In a message dated 10/11/2011 9:00:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vance@juniperpacific.com writes:

 

Ah! The miracle of a talented producer.....The Sixth Moody, Tony Clarke, had a major part to play in their sound, like it or not.

Vance (with shields up)

On 10/11/2011 5:22 PM, Chris Dale wrote:

 

It's the same string sound a 400 has but the sound is coming from (at that time) the MK II tube preamps, miked up speakers, and an plate reverb.

It's more the processing than the actual tapes. Modifying the Mellotron came later.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Mark <markpringnz@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I'm not a Moody Blues fan but just been listening to "nights" again, not a song I like but the mellotron sound really is wonderful, I think the Mark II has a sound of it's own I don't believe you could make an M400 sound like that.

Mark