Bruce,
I have the Russian Choir and I like it a lot. I've only played the
St John's Wood Church Organ on the M-Tron and it sounds very good,
so I can only imagine how much better it sounds on a Mellotron. Does
the Watcher mix sound like an even mix of the MkII 3 Volins and MkII
Combined Brass? I wonder if it sounds any different than mixing
adjacent tracks of the same instruments. I would love to hear it if
you could post a sample.
I'm also looking forward to your review of the Angry Strings, French
Horn (Rick's?) and Chamber Woodwinds. Seems like a great
combination. Have fun lacing them. I did it once. A word of caution
though: if you have cats, lock them in another room while lacing.
Bernie
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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily
<pocotron@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all-
>
> I just recieved my new tapframe & tapes from
> Streetly. Thanks Martin & company, I am very pleased
> with this!
>
> The new frame is laced with- A)Watcher Mix,
> B)Russian Choir, C)St.Johns Wood Church Organ. Great
> sounds! Watcher Mix by itself has a lonely, haunting
> quality, and should make a good background sound.
> Russian Choir is amazing, and has the rare quality of
> sounding useful speeded up or slowed down. The organ
> is unexpectedly beautiful and powerful(It even makes
> MY playing sound good). The choir mixes well with
> both sounds. It should be mentioned that mixing
> between the tracks has almost no drop in sound level
> or timbre. All attacks seem to be lined up(thanks
> Martin). Very nice!
>
> I also recieved another set of tapes(no frame)-
> A)Angry Strings, B)French Horn, C)Chamber Woodwinds.
> This will replace a very worn set on a frame I bought
> 6 months ago. Some lacing needs to be done(oboy).
> Will advise everyone on the results.
>
> Got a belt and 2 headblock rollers, too. Believe
> it or not, my 'tron was missing a roller when I got it
> a year ago (how do you lose one of those?!). After
> some electronic noise, headscratching, and advice from
> our intrepid group, I fashioned a roller from nylon
> parts found at Ace Hardware. However, I got the right
> stuff now.
>
> Oh yeah, the new turnbuckles on the frame are
> great! Thought I'd better get that in. ;-)
>
> Thanks again to the gang at Streetly!
>
>
> -Bruce Daily
> #1221 (sez-"these tapes smell different...")
>
>
>
>
>
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