Mellotronists

The bit Ken and I would like to emulate from that song snippet is the 
3-violins starting around 0:45 and continuing from there.

The sound is warm and smooth, and it seems to have some kind of 
envelope on the start of the notes.

It sounds like it has been EQ'ed up a bit in the upper bass range and 
has had the high end knocked off (to get rid of the harshness).  Then 
it's got some reverb/delay applied to split the channels or has been 
double-tracked to get a stereo effect, perhaps 1 octave lower in a 
different chord pattern (haven't tried that).

I've tried doing the EQ thing, and it begins to get there, but the 
damn PC-based EQ I'm using doesn't cut it (need more bands).  If I 
use the parametric EQ on the Mackie I can vary the sound quite a bit, 
but I can't get that nice, smooth sound in the Gracious! tune.

...kl...M400 #805 - victim of experimentation