Mellotronists

Hah ha, when I read this first, I thought the answer was "A Yamaha
DX7".... but then I realised we were talking about Tuesday, not
Thursday. :)

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "bob_vandiver"
<bob_vandiver@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, my first post so please be gentle.
> 
> A couple of years ago (before I knew about this resource and others)
I tried to duplicate 
> Tuesday Afternoon using the M-Tron and other instruments (don't
ask). Work ground to a 
> stop when I tried to add the "oboe" sound. This was the Mellotron
line that carried the 
> melody of the song, the answer to Justin's singing.
> 
> The problem was I could find no M-Tron sound that sounded remotely
close to what I hear 
> on the record. The closest I could get was I think the sax patch,
which makes some sense 
> because in headphones there actually is a sax sound in the left
channel and the "oboe" 
> arises from that general part of the stereo spread. Does anybody
know what Mike Pinder 
> actually did to get that oboe sound? 
> 
> I can say that the M-Tron oboe sounds rather poor fidelity. Mike's
sound did not sound 
> like the M-Tron does. It sounds like the tape was waundering off the
center of the tape 
> head with dulling of the sound over the length of the note. The
Moody oboe does not do 
> this and it has a much more percussive attack.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Vandiver
>