Mellotronists

In a message dated 11/19/2002 12:23:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tron@... writes:


> > Thanks, Rick, and I look forward to hearing the new sounds out on the
> > Streetly web site one of these days.
> 
> P'shaw. *I'M* looking forward to this.
> 
> If anyone has any of the less well-known sounds that are *not* featured
> on the website (URL below) then can you please get in touch with me so I
> can get some more samples up on the site?
> 
> 

But Mike, we prefer your little demos.  When I installed the new sounds on my 
MKII, there were no classic songs using these sounds ("Watcher" mix aside), 
so I found myself playing the little Mike Dickson demos.  Even now, whenever 
I fire up the Ray Jung fretless bass, I have to do that bass run to make it 
sound *official*.   

Don't mind me, I'm easily impressed ;-).

But seriously, its not a coincidence that most of the new sounds I purchased 
were the ones demo'd on your web site.  I guess, more importantly, I didn't 
purchase       any sounds that I hadn't heard either on your web site or at 
one of the Mellotron meetings.  And since there are no more "Tronfests 
planned, that pretty much leaves the web site.  There were some other 
interesting sounds (by name) available in the Library (ex. - E Bow, Electric 
Violin), but without a demo to listen to, I couldn't tell if I would like 
them or not.  

So, (Martin?) if you want to sell the new sounds, the demos should be out 
there (and to be fair, most of them are).  Mikes demos are much more 
effective at conveying the characteristics of the sounds than single notes 
are (think Russian choir, for example).  Now that Rick's well on the way to 
providing some more new sounds, we'll need some demos out there for those 
too.  Not that *I'M* volunteering to do them though (sorry, Mike)  ;-).


Ken M.