The cello sound that you hear
here was recorded a few years ago by me using a local cellist and is not only pretty much in tune (thanks to some judicious post-production, of course) but has a greatly different timbre thanks to it being recorded on a steel string cello as opposed to
Reg Kirby's Catgut Special.
It sounds really fantastic. The old cello sound is one of those classic sounds you want to have, but is really in a pretty awful state as far as actual playability is concerned. It doesn't feature in much that I do really because of that. The sound is great but it's all over the map. (Though the fact that Noel G played it microtonally flat throughout Wonderwall has maybe more to do with his tin ear than any failings on the part of the Mellotron)
Mike
On 2 February 2012 22:55, Mark Wallis
<markstuartwallis@hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't have such problems unless I'm using the MkII solo cello. Most of the time it does my head in. Sometimes it sounds ok. Mostly not. Next time I retape this frame I'll definitely go for a newly-recorded cello sound.
I have 'relative pitch' days and 'hypercritical' days, depending on whether I've had to tune a Rhodes or some such thing. Especially the last octave or so. Hmm...
PLINKY...
Love and Scones.
Wallis