Mellotronists

The originals were out of tune?  fooled me....

-----Original Message-----
From: tronbros@...
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:14:10 EDT
Subject: [Mellotronists] Hallowed ground



Now here's one for you and we'd welcome your comments...................

  Just recently we have been asked to tune up original recordings. One 
instance was the MKII Flute and the other was the MKII Brass. Both 
these recordings are amongst the most popular ever in the Mellotron 
Song Book.

  As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinion that all our 
favourite albums were made with the sounds as they were originally 
recorded. However, the tuned up versions sounded fantastic and even 
seasoned pedantic bastards like us agreed that it was wonderful not to 
have to find chord inversions to avoid THAT NOTE!

  Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that half his time was spent 
trying to find smooth chordal progressions that kept in tune as best as 
possible and he had favourite notes in the M300A violins that he tried 
to always avoid.

  There are so many dire notes amongst the recordings that you become 
over aware of when making tapes and the temptation is to fix the 
buggers. So what do you think about altering history even if the end 
result makes things a lot easier to use?

 Best,

 Martin

STREETLY ELECTRONICS - All things Mellotronic
www.mellotronics.co.uk
www.mellotronics.com
US East Coast Agent - Jimmy Moore JMoore6397@...
US West Coast Agent - Paul Cox pjc56@...



  

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