Mellotronists

So what are you people running your Mellotrons through live and
recording ? Past and present OK.

I am going to fess up first.
A Neve channel strip (I'm not a fool).Rockman, Wah Face, Moog filter
bank, VCS3, Big Muff, 3'speaker taped to coffee can. 3 Revoxes,6
pencils and a shaller wah wah yoi yoi., EH Smallstone and a Behringer
copy (which is great). Mutron Phasor, guild 7 miked through Tommy
Tunes weird PA (weider than Otts,Tommys sound designer), a Smoky amp
in aside a guild guitar.a talk box tube in an excited girls mouth. a
really big Serge, SPX90, plate reverb Macintosh amp and bozak column.

Next confession please.

That's the ticket. and I agree. I keep modulatin and it keeps sounding
crapulated. It must the English influence, It's all a bit of fun but
look calm.

On 6/19/07, Mark Wallis <markstuartwallis@...> wrote:
> Oh Gino..
>
> Truly mouthwatering selection there.
>
> Marble-counting time!
>
> Dear old 151 plays live and rehearses through the following:
>
> Colorsound Volume and Wah pedals,
> WEM Audiomaster mixer,
> WEM Copicat Tape Echo.
>
> ..into the healthiest amp head from the following selection depending on the
> phases of the mother moon..
>
> Selmer TV100MkII PA 100w
> Selmer Treble'n'Bass MkII 50w (most often)
> Selmer Treble'n'Bass MkIII 50w
> Selmer Treble'n'Bass 50SV 50w
> Selmer Thunderbird 100MkII 100w (borrowed)
>
> through Orange 4x12" cab
>
> Selmer Zodiac 50 MkIII 50w combo for smaller things or hatchback manoeuvres
> Selmer Compact 30SV in the workshop
>
> New Big Rig consists of:
> Marshall Master 100 valve PA head
> Rebaffled/reloaded wierdo Marshall cab (2x12"+1x15" in one cab)
>
> Recording-wise.. At various points we've messed about with the
> following,some borrowed, some not-
>
> Stone Audio envelope filter/ADT unit
> Dodgy Old Vesta Fire Digital Delay
> Morley Wah/Volume
> Melos Tape Echo
> Selmer 'Wau-Wau Machine'
> Alesis Quadraverb
> Colorsound Tone-Bender Fuzz
> Lovetone Meatball
> Pro-Co Rat distortion
> EH Holy Grail
> EH Electric Mistress
> EH Microsynth
> EH Hot Tubes
> EH 'The Worm'
> EH BassBalls
> Leslies 145,910,700,16
> Marshall JCM 800 stack
> Carlsbro Stingray tranny amp
> Burns 'Orbital Stage One' tranny amp
>
> Smokey fag packet amp. Ours was a Marlboro and we swung it round and round
> on the end of a lead. The jack came out, it bounced off the wall, flew down
> the stairs and hit somebody in the mouth..)
>
> Fender 135w Silverface Twin Reverb
> Minimoog/Micromoog external audio inputs
> Acoustic 301 bass cab
> WEM Audiomaster/Audiomaster MkII reverb mixers
> Microphones in mop buckets, in stairwells, inside the case (for the rumble,
> whirr and 'schhhwwippp')
> Misc. mixers
> ProTools
> Nuendo
> mics from Grampian to Røde
> all sorts of daft plug-ins
> crappy tape 4-tracks
> Not Especially crappy digital 8-tracks
> Not Remotely Crappy digital multitracks
>
> To be fair, most of the treatments that we've tried sounded 'orrible.. And
> much as I LOVE Leslies and wobbly stuff, I still can't stand the sound of
> modulated Mellotrons. I like a swell pedal, a bit of echo or spring reverb
> and a nice British valve amp with a mic stuffed in it's face.
>
> Love and Scones,
>
> wallis x
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "gino wong" <wonggster@...>
> >To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [Mellotronists] Through what or not.
> >Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:12:48 -0400
> >
> >So what are you people running your Mellotrons through live and
> >recording ? Past and present OK.
> >
> >I am going to fess up first.
> >A Neve channel strip (I'm not a fool).Rockman, Wah Face, Moog filter
> >bank, VCS3, Big Muff, 3'speaker taped to coffee can. 3 Revoxes,6
> >pencils and a shaller wah wah yoi yoi., EH Smallstone and a Behringer
> >copy (which is great). Mutron Phasor, guild 7 miked through Tommy
> >Tunes weird PA (weider than Otts,Tommys sound designer), a Smoky amp
> >in aside a guild guitar.a talk box tube in an excited girls mouth. a
> >really big Serge, SPX90, plate reverb Macintosh amp and bozak column.
> >
> >Next confession please.
>
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My M400 sits in my computer/music room; no live gigs for it anymore.

In the olde days, #500 passed through a Phase Linear 400 amplifier powering 2 folded horn enclosures, each contaiing 2 15" EV speakers, 2 midrange cabinets, each containing 25 4 1/2" speakers, and 4 Heil AMT1 elements. But now,

#500 --> Mackie mixer w/ reverb --> M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard in my PC --> Onkyo 100w amplifier --> JBL 4311 speakers.

It was going through a Joe Meek 3Q before going into the Mackie up until a couple of days ago, but I tend to like the sound with as little processing as possible. After all, Mellotrons already sound perfect, so there's nothing that can improve the sound.

Sometimes I divert the signal into Cubase SX to record it.

Bernie

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "gino wong" <wonggster@...> wrote:
>
> That's the ticket. and I agree. I keep modulatin and it keeps sounding
> crapulated. It must the English influence, It's all a bit of fun but
> look calm.
>
> On 6/19/07, Mark Wallis markstuartwallis@... wrote:
> > Oh Gino..
> >
> > Truly mouthwatering selection there.
> >
> > Marble-counting time!
> >
> > Dear old 151 plays live and rehearses through the following:
> >
> > Colorsound Volume and Wah pedals,
> > WEM Audiomaster mixer,
> > WEM Copicat Tape Echo.
> >
> > ..into the healthiest amp head from the following selection depending on the
> > phases of the mother moon..
> >
> > Selmer TV100MkII PA 100w
> > Selmer Treble'n'Bass MkII 50w (most often)
> > Selmer Treble'n'Bass MkIII 50w
> > Selmer Treble'n'Bass 50SV 50w
> > Selmer Thunderbird 100MkII 100w (borrowed)
> >
> > through Orange 4x12" cab
> >
> > Selmer Zodiac 50 MkIII 50w combo for smaller things or hatchback manoeuvres
> > Selmer Compact 30SV in the workshop
> >
> > New Big Rig consists of:
> > Marshall Master 100 valve PA head
> > Rebaffled/reloaded wierdo Marshall cab (2x12"+1x15" in one cab)
> >
> > Recording-wise.. At various points we've messed about with the
> > following,some borrowed, some not-
> >
> > Stone Audio envelope filter/ADT unit
> > Dodgy Old Vesta Fire Digital Delay
> > Morley Wah/Volume
> > Melos Tape Echo
> > Selmer 'Wau-Wau Machine'
> > Alesis Quadraverb
> > Colorsound Tone-Bender Fuzz
> > Lovetone Meatball
> > Pro-Co Rat distortion
> > EH Holy Grail
> > EH Electric Mistress
> > EH Microsynth
> > EH Hot Tubes
> > EH 'The Worm'
> > EH BassBalls
> > Leslies 145,910,700,16
> > Marshall JCM 800 stack
> > Carlsbro Stingray tranny amp
> > Burns 'Orbital Stage One' tranny amp
> >
> > Smokey fag packet amp. Ours was a Marlboro and we swung it round and round
> > on the end of a lead. The jack came out, it bounced off the wall, flew down
> > the stairs and hit somebody in the mouth..)
> >
> > Fender 135w Silverface Twin Reverb
> > Minimoog/Micromoog external audio inputs
> > Acoustic 301 bass cab
> > WEM Audiomaster/Audiomaster MkII reverb mixers
> > Microphones in mop buckets, in stairwells, inside the case (for the rumble,
> > whirr and 'schhhwwippp')
> > Misc. mixers
> > ProTools
> > Nuendo
> > mics from Grampian to Røde
> > all sorts of daft plug-ins
> > crappy tape 4-tracks
> > Not Especially crappy digital 8-tracks
> > Not Remotely Crappy digital multitracks
> >
> > To be fair, most of the treatments that we've tried sounded 'orrible.. And
> > much as I LOVE Leslies and wobbly stuff, I still can't stand the sound of
> > modulated Mellotrons. I like a swell pedal, a bit of echo or spring reverb
> > and a nice British valve amp with a mic stuffed in it's face.
> >
> > Love and Scones,
> >
> > wallis x
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "gino wong" wonggster@...
> > >To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> > >Subject: [Mellotronists] Through what or not.
> > >Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:12:48 -0400
> > >
> > >So what are you people running your Mellotrons through live and
> > >recording ? Past and present OK.
> > >
> > >I am going to fess up first.
> > >A Neve channel strip (I'm not a fool).Rockman, Wah Face, Moog filter
> > >bank, VCS3, Big Muff, 3'speaker taped to coffee can. 3 Revoxes,6
> > >pencils and a shaller wah wah yoi yoi., EH Smallstone and a Behringer
> > >copy (which is great). Mutron Phasor, guild 7 miked through Tommy
> > >Tunes weird PA (weider than Otts,Tommys sound designer), a Smoky amp
> > >in aside a guild guitar.a talk box tube in an excited girls mouth. a
> > >really big Serge, SPX90, plate reverb Macintosh amp and bozak column.
> > >
> > >Next confession please.
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Picture this – share your photos and you could win big!
> > http://www.GETREALPhotoContest.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us
> >
> >
>