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Alesis MidiVerb II did someone request?.... $75.00 right now with no
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-----Original Message-----
From: JS [mailto:jonesalley@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:44 PM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] MkII mandolins


oops. meant to send to the group...

Jon E Salley
MiloJohnson@...
M400 #886

> Once again, I find myself comforted. That has been a long-standing policy
> of my own as well. I've always hated going to live shows and finding the
> arrangements weak and empty, missing a lot of the little touches and
> flourishes that made the songs' studio versions, and have therefore always
> been insistent to the point of really pissing people off about being able

to

> perform original material note-for-note in a live situation. I find it

also

> helps you be more creative, because if you want to put something in a

song,

> you have to figure out HOW instead of using the studio as a crutch.
>
> And regarding Alesis MicroVerb, I'm almost in exact accord there, too.

I'd

> kill to find another Alesis MidiVerb II. The big reverbs in patch 19 and

in

> patch 21 have always been the warmest, fullest reverbs I've ever heard,

even

> "nicer" sounding than the big Lexicons, etc. that people rave about.
>
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@...
> M400 #886
>
>
>
> >
> > Genesis appears to have had a strict policy for studio recordings
> > where they'd always arrange the music "as if live", so nobody is
> > playing a combination of instruments they couldn't play in a live
> > performance. I don't know how intentional this was, but it sure seems
> > consistant. If not obsessive.
> >
> > Arranging a song "as if live" has a number of interesting effects:
> > Live performances can sound pretty much exactly like the studio
> > recordings.
> >
> > There's a certain sense of musical honesty.
>
>

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