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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: "In The Beginning" - Moody Blues (Threshold)

From: JAMES STRAUSS <jandjstrz@verizon.net>
Date: 2012-05-04

Hmmmm....
Didn't Ten Years After try and do the same thing in the first 25 seconds of this album?
 
I'd like to hear a mash up of this, with Graeme Edge doing the "One of these days boy........"
 

--- On Thu, 5/3/12, Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: "In The Beginning" - Moody Blues (Threshold)
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 10:15 PM

 
Sorry I didn't recognize the name of this.

If you're talking about the beginning and close of Threshold Of A Dream, yes it the sound and whine of the Mellotron MK II along with high strings played in various chords.

It's a very spacey sound. I think it would make a great choice as a new Mellotron  sound
 - you could have the whine and noise on each key with background high violins in the key that you are playing.

It would be an interesting experiment.

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:43 AM, <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:
 
Mine makes me hear a sound like a forest full of cicadas and crickets most of the time. It's a bit better now that I no longer suffer from hypertension.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 5/3/2012 1:26:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hammonddave2004@yahoo.com writes:
 
I wish tinitus sounded that good.
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From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: "In The Beginning" - Moody Blues (Threshold)

 
Hi all-
   If I had to guess, Mike Pinder probably recorded the motor noise, then played it back at a different speed or half-speed.  If a dynamic mic was used, it could've picked up all sorts of electronic noise from the motor, including the high-pitched whine.  It would also make sense that the recording was a multitrack mixture of many sounds, including the low-level MK2 violins.
   I wonder what the sound was supposed to represent.  Someone waking up with ears ringing from an acid dream after a rock concert?  A realization of self after the incident?
  The high-pitched whine is much like the tinnitus I live with all the time.
 
  -Bruce D.
 

From: tron400 <tron400@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:56 AM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: "In The Beginning" - Moody Blues (Threshold)

 
I wish I had a MkII to try it with.

With some processing, I suppose it's possible. Way in the background, you can hear what to me sounds like MkII Violins.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Sean" <fourtytwominds@...> wrote:
>
> I remember reading that it was originally a microphone held to the motor of one of their MkII units. This seems a little dubious to me though as I listen to it.
>
> -Sean
>
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tron400" <tron400@> wrote:
> >
> > Someone posted this question on the Synthesizers.com group. It sounds like a combination of sounds to me. Anyone want to take a crack at it?
> >
> > "In the song "In The Beginning" by the Moody Blues", what produces that opening sound. I have wondered this from the time I first heard it!"
> >
> > Bernie
> >
>