Mellotronists

I think I asked before but why weren't human voices considered for the MK 1 & 2 & 300? 
Didn't the Chamberlins have male and female voices originally or did Harry do that later? 
You'd think that some artists might have asked for it...the Moodies for instance could've 
put their stacked wall of backing vocals on Mike's tron.
  I know the 8 choir etc. didn't happen til later for the 400 but do the choir tapes sound 
any different on a MK2 or 300?

yeah...the Mellotron Archives disc has the Chamberlin male and female voices (heavy 
1930's movie vibrato) and I recognized it from the Ethos album.It's showcased on their 
song "Sedona". It's cool to create a mixed layer on my Emu E4K of the tron 8 choir,tron 
male and female split (sampled by me from my old M400 tapes)), and the Chamberlin 
voices. I also made a preset of split Chamberlin male and female and routed them to L/R 
panning.
  I wonder what the first Kurzweil K250 choir would sound like put onto tron tapes:) That 
always had a massive sound...




--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Pomeroy Ranch" <punchbowl4@...> wrote:

>
> My M-2 has female voice, but I'm not sure if it was an earlier
> recording....(She's a lovely sounding lady - put to good use on the
> "Ethos Ardour" album)
>  
> Vance
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of charel196
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:06 PM
> To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Mellotronists] Mark 2 & Choirs
>  
> I think I asked before but why weren't human voices considered for the
> MK 1 & 2 & 300? 
> Didn't the Chamberlins have male and female voices originally or did
> Harry do that later? 
> You'd think that some artists might have asked for it...the Moodies for
> instance could've 
> put their stacked wall of backing vocals on Mike's tron.
> I know the 8 choir etc. didn't happen til later for the 400 but do the
> choir tapes sound 
> any different on a MK2 or 300?
>

charel196 wrote:

> yeah...the Mellotron Archives disc has the Chamberlin male and female voices (heavy
> 1930's movie vibrato) and I recognized it from the Ethos album.It's showcased on their
> song "Sedona". It's cool to create a mixed layer on my Emu E4K of the tron 8 choir,tron
> male and female split (sampled by me from my old M400 tapes)), and the Chamberlin
> voices. I also made a preset of split Chamberlin male and female and routed them to L/R
> panning.
>   I wonder what the first Kurzweil K250 choir would sound like put onto tron tapes:) That
> always had a massive sound...

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Hi Charles and Gang,

There were some impressive strings and choir voices on New Age/Spacemusic
artist Constance Demby's CD  "Novus Magnificat,Thru the Stargate "
of the mid-late 1980's.  That album  I believe was entirely recorded
using the Emu-2 sampler .   Sounded pretty doggone good for its time.

Ms. Demby also played hammered dulcimer (Persian Santour)
and misc. custom instruments on her other CDs.

-JK-  ( spacemusic fan since the P.F. days, and Alison Steele's feature
pgms. on WNEW-FM from NYC early 70's )

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "charel196" <charel196@...> 
wrote:

>   I wonder what the first Kurzweil K250 choir would sound like put 
onto tron tapes:) That always had a massive sound...

I wonder too.  The Spectrasonics Symphony of Voices sample library - 
http://www.spectrasonics.net/libraries/symphonyvoices.php

A few selected multi-samples from this, on one tape frame.  
Spectrasonics would want their logo on the frame!

Clay

So Jerry....do you have choirs on your MK2? Does the older tube tech change their sound 
much? Must sound cool thru the side speakers too. 
 Might be fun to have an entire MK2 dedicated to doing human voices...8 & 16 
choirs,soloists,Chamberlin voices,boys choir, Russian choir,male, female....
 I have the Spectrasonics sounds...they would be great too (Nick Magnus used these 
brilliantly on INHALING GREEN)





--- In Mellotronists@...m, Jerry Korb <jkorb@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> charel196 wrote:
> 
> > yeah...the Mellotron Archives disc has the Chamberlin male and female voices (heavy
> > 1930's movie vibrato) and I recognized it from the Ethos album.It's showcased on 
their
> > song "Sedona". It's cool to create a mixed layer on my Emu E4K of the tron 8 
choir,tron
> > male and female split (sampled by me from my old M400 tapes)), and the Chamberlin
> > voices. I also made a preset of split Chamberlin male and female and routed them to 
L/R
> > panning.
> >   I wonder what the first Kurzweil K250 choir would sound like put onto tron tapes:) 
That

> > always had a massive sound...
> 
> _____________________________________________________________
> 
> Hi Charles and Gang,
> 
> There were some impressive strings and choir voices on New Age/Spacemusic
> artist Constance Demby's CD  "Novus Magnificat,Thru the Stargate "
> of the mid-late 1980's.  That album  I believe was entirely recorded
> using the Emu-2 sampler .   Sounded pretty doggone good for its time.
> 
> Ms. Demby also played hammered dulcimer (Persian Santour)
> and misc. custom instruments on her other CDs.
> 
> -JK-  ( spacemusic fan since the P.F. days, and Alison Steele's feature
> pgms. on WNEW-FM from NYC early 70's )
>