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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring <markpringnz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
> I think it is very difficult to get the types of sounds you
> want with M-Tron, IÂ like M-Tron it didn't cost much and I can gets
> sounds from it which have pleased me, it is a lot less hassle than my
> M400 but the difference in sound between the two is huge.
>
> I think
> the KC sound is easier to approximate than the Moodies sound, but I
> can't get close to Woolly's string sound with M-Tron or my M400 come to
> that and I have given up trying. I suspect a lot comes down to the
> hardware used.
I mostly got the KC sound I think. Run M-Tron through Garage Band, so I can plug in effects before the A/D converter. I can get almost identical to Court of the Crimson King. Can't quite get the bite of the In the Wake sound. No luck at the angry brass sound.
Any case, for the violins. I crank the volume of the VST to max using "Violins 1."
Compressor: Thresh: -35.5dB, Rat: 1.6:1, Att: 6ms, Gain: +16.5dB
Highpass: cut 180hz, gain -12dB
Graphic EQ: high is 500hz at +3dB gentle curve to -6dB at both 100hz, beyond that a very sharp dropoff.
Then a very wet and grand reverb.
Keep the tone knob between 9 and 10 oclock.
> I now wonder if trying to emulate other peoples
> sounds is really that satisfying, might be better to come up with
> something nobody has heard before, when my tron is back in action I'm
> planning to feed the output through my microkorg or monotron for what I
> hope will be some interesting sounds.
>
> Good luck
>
> Mark
I'm aiming for the sounds because I really dig them and want to incorporate them into what I do when I make my own stuff. Kinda the same that I should really start learning to play guitar like Robbie Kreiger, Robert Fripp, and Jimmy Page, so when I do my own, I can bring some of what I really dig to the table along with all the other stuff I do. I agree that I wouldn't want to do this just for the hell of copying alone.
Same with the Melly stuff. I'd like to be able to bring the KC sound, the Moodies sound, and that really grungy sound I heard on the first Aphrodite's Child album to play, along with whatever else that I can come up with.
-Sean