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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Hello to all. Questions about mixing.

From: doctorwho8@aol.com
Date: 2009-07-31

This gave me the same chills when I hear the real deal.  Great job!  And you do sound like Pinder on Out and In.  Need a drummer?
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

In a message dated 7/31/09 2:01:38 PM, owen@thinking-aloud.co.uk writes:



(Oh lordy is it really eight months since I last logged on here? Gah! Hi everyone.)

If it's any use to you, I mocked up the Tuesday Afternoon Mellotron parts last year when this question came up before - you can hear them here:

http://thinking-http://thhttp://thinkhttp://thinking-http://t

On this one I've used the Mellotron Archives CD samples for both voices. The EQ chops all the top and bottom off, with a bit of a boost in the middle. There's a bit of reverb on both sides. (Interestingly, after doing this, I came across a partial recording of Tuesday Afternoon from (presumably) an 8-track version, which had just the Mellotron parts in exactly the same way.)

For the later Pinderesque sound, as it got mellower, I've used a wetter reverb (more reverb than dry signal) which gives the sounds you can hear in this track (which is all M-Tron):

http://thinking-http://thhttp://thinkhttp://thinkhttp:/

(I did this track just to see how close I could get to the original recording. Please excuse the singing - I had a dreadful cold at the time!)

Tron sounds of this ilk can be found on other tracks on the website there - click the header to go to the main page.

Hope that's of some interest to someone!

Owen



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