The Mellotron Group

Hi all-
   I just discovered that Mike D. has blessed the Mellotron sounds library samples with the Louise Davis 'Cello without vibrato.  What a weird sound!  It must have been a real pain to get it in tune.  The sample chords somehow sound like an accordion.
 
  -Bruce D.
 
 

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 From: Mark Wallis <markstuartwallis@hotmail.com>
To: new trongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] One Of These Days...
  

 
   
 
I don't have such problems unless I'm using the MkII solo cello. Most of the time it does my head in. Sometimes it sounds ok. Mostly not. Next time I retape this frame I'll definitely go for a newly-recorded cello sound.

I have 'relative pitch' days and 'hypercritical' days, depending on whether I've had to tune a Rhodes or some such thing. Especially the last octave or so. Hmm...PLINKY...

Love and Scones.


Wallis






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To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
From: mike.dickson@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:38:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] One Of These Days...

  
I'm sure that's it.  You start hearing one problem and then become over-attuned to everything else, and the fact that the Mellotron isn't exactly tuned doesn't help it a bit.  After a while you kind of settle down and the next thing it's all fine.  Weird beyond weird.  


I had a friend - well, I say 'friend'...I really mean 'twat that I knew' - who had a hugely accurate sense of pitch and who had to give up on music simply because everything sounded like this to him.  I'd hate to have that sort of talent.


On 2 February 2012 22:30, tronbros <tronbros@aol.com> wrote:

 
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