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New Mellotron Sounds

New Mellotron Sounds

2002-11-17 by kenmerb@aol.com

Just thought I'd mention that there are some nice photos of Rick Blechta's latest recording sessions for new Mellotron sounds on his web site. Check them out at the following link:

http://rickblechta.com/Pages/Mellotron.html

These are the first photos I have ever seen of actual Mellotron sound recording sessions.

There's even a photo of Rick playing the French horn, a sound which I proudly own and play on my MKII. Although, the image scared me a little (it looks like he's being strangled by a sea creature). I'm going to see this now whenever I play that sound ;-).

Thanks, Rick, and I look forward to hearing the new sounds out on the Streetly web site one of these days.


Ken M.

[Mellotronists] New Mellotron Sounds

2002-11-19 by tron@blackcat.demon.co.uk

> 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?

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/

Re: [Mellotronists] New Mellotron Sounds

2002-11-19 by kenmerb@aol.com

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


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> 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.

[Mellotronists] New Mellotron Sounds

2002-11-22 by tron@blackcat.demon.co.uk

> 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*.

Good god. :-)

There's a mate of mine who came all the way down from Aberdeen to play
on my Mellotron. When I loaded up the I-McD flutes he started playing
something that I *vaguely recognised*. He told me that this was the
sample I had on Merb's website and that he had taken the time to learn
it!

> But seriously, its not a coincidence that most of the new sounds I
> purchased were the ones demo'd on your web site.

It doesn't surprise me - I'd be loathe to buy set of tapes without any
idea of what they sounded like. (Although I confess I more or les did
this with the Russian Choir) Seriously; I again restate the begging
notice. If anyone has tapes that are *unusual* for which there are no
samples (or even entries) in the below-mentioned website then get in
touch with me.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/