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Subject: Re: Recording the M4000

From: "ClayE" <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
Date: 2009-10-04

I would like to hear the finished product. Nice time signature. The tune has a Gentle Giant feel.



--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> Dan Britton ( Birds& Buildings) came by yesterday to put the M4000 through
> its paces. He is recording tacks for two upcoming CDs for two different
> projects. One is avant-prog and the other a more orchestral approach. Guess
> which one this was for.
>
> Here is a video of him playing the St. John's Wood organ. He had already
> laid down M300-A strings, 8-choir, Mark II Brass, Tenor Sax and Bass Clarinet
> for this tune. You can hear the keys banging quite a bit but that it
> because I was very close to the M4000 and the music tracks were coming out of a
> set of cheap Dell computer speakers behind me. Dan didn't want to play
> through the studio monitors for some reason, but you can still here how fast
> the M4000 can be played. Obviously there is no keyboard noise on the recorded
> tracks.
>
> I will be posting more from this recording session later.
>
> Frank
>
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqItWJ9J-QU_
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqItWJ9J-QU)
>