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(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- aloud.co. uk/playsong. php?TuesdayAfter tron.mp3
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- aloud.co. uk/playsong. php?Out_And_ In.mp3
(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
--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, "fourtytwominds" <fourtytwominds@ ...> wrote:
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> Thanks all who have replied.
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> It's given me some new ideas, and has sent me to the right combination of tapes for the sleepy-Pinder sound. On that one I was previously wondering about the elegance of using Trumpets/Trombones, MkII Brass, and MkII Violins. He would have to use at least one overdub and then how does he make three sounds come out of a MkII live? Your information is more elegant, Tenor Sax on the left, Violin on the right, no problem live.
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> I'll try going back to playing my samples through my guitar amp when I'm trying to emulate sounds I'm used to. I've only got a solid state 2x12" 120W combo by Crate. I like the sound for guitar but I'm thinking of contacting my band director friends and borrowing their tube equipment when it's serious Mellotron recording time.
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> Fritz mentioned doing oddball things. That reminded me, I've got an idea to share. Try taking your 'tron through a guitar-fuzz pedal before it gets to your volume pedal. I've used both my NYC Big Muff and the built in channels on my guitar combo amp, without much appreciable difference. I recommend doing this on the bassoon, Mk II flute, and Mk II Organ #2 (the Lawrence Welk type warbly one) tapes. For the last two it yields a mean acid organ sound, and the flutes especially bring out intermodulation/ difference tones. The bassoon sounds absolutely wicked if played in one octave spacing; singular notes and other intervals: not so great.
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> I'll have to go try using very mild amounts of gain on some of my favorite channels and see if I get that harsh biting sound I've heard from early era Mellotron recordings (like Graham Bond Organisation and such)
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> Thanks again for the help everyone!
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> -Sean
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