Is Mixed Choir the same as the 8 Choir? That's the most famous one. There's also a combined Choir that's 8 Choir+Boys Choir. Never heard of String Quartet. Is it Cello+Viola+Violins?
I just received a set of tuned Cello/Chamberlin Violins/MkII Flute on EMI tape from Streety Electronics. The EMI tape is the original Mellotron tape...plays well and sounds great. The Chamberlin Violins are the same as the MkII Violins, but at least one generation newer. They sound somewhere between the M400 Violins and the MkII Violins. In my "purist" past, I would have ordered untuned tapes, but it's worth it to get tuned tapes. I'm pretty sure yours will default to tuned tapes.
Bernie
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, jason wietlispach <capnreverb@...> wrote:
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> Female choir, mixed choir, string quartet. I assumed the tapes would be in tune/tuneable, am I missing anything...Markus didn't mention this.
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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:47 AM
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Hello in Mellotron land, I'm new here.
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> What, besides Choir is on the new set of tapes that you ordered? Did you order tuned tapes?
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> Bernie
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, jason wietlispach <capnreverb@> wrote:
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> > One is Cello/Flute
> > Two is strings/ ? sounds like Genesis/organ
> > Three is Vibes/Choir and some sound effects at the end (thunder, lion, telephone, laugh track, applause).
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> > Odd thing is that when i get it close to in tune, everything is close but the flutes on that half are out of tune. Weird.
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> > I just picked up a reprinted manaul on Ebay for $40, expensive but it at least has some usefull info. The cover has a Mellotron, a Neumann u87 and a can of Pepsi. You would of thought it would have been a bong or a bottle of beer, not Pepsi.
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> > From: 'tronster <dan_miso@>
> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:53 AM
> > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Hello in Mellotron land, I'm new here.
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> > Hi Jason:
> > You're correct; that 2nd set of tapes is a weird duck. Somebody's custom job-cram as many mellotron sounds as possible onto one tape rack! What are the other sounds?
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> > Best wishes,
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> > Dan
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> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "capnreverb" <capnreverb@> wrote:
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> > > I guess I joined the old group that a member here was kind enough to point out to me so I'll post here instead. Thanks!
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> > > Just joined and this is my first post. Ever since I was a kid I wanted a Mellotron and twenty five years later it finally came true. I have a m400 with two sets of tapes in my attic recording studio. Works ok but I have to futz with it a lot, but I knew when I bought it that there was going to be a learnig curve. I just love it. One set of tapes is the standard flute, cello, and strings. The other set is kinda weird. It has six sounds each divided at the center key, plus some sound effects at the end of one of the sounds. How common was that? The crappy part about that is that the sound effects are on the choir half, leaving me only an octave of choir, I wish it had been the flutes! The choir is my favorite sound, so I just ordered a new set of tapes with full choirs from Markus Resch. I look forward to reading and hopefully getting a few question answered.
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> > > Thanks!
> > > -jason wietlispach
> > > Oak Creek, Wisconsin
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