The Mellotron Group

Quite often from me. However a year down the track of owning one, #1565 sounds a lot more dry and raw these days. Woolly can borrow it if he ever makes it to New Zealand.

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, tronbros@aol.com <tronbros@aol.com> wrote:
From: tronbros@aol.com <tronbros@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotrons Live vs Studio
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:43 AM











    
            




This one crops up on a regular basis.:
Mark 
  Pring wrote:
>
> Just listening to some live Moody Blues track on 
  Last FM, well 
> actually Melancholy Man. Just got me thinking of the 
  difference 
> between the live and studio sound of the mellotron. I much 
  prefer the 
> live sound, not knowing much about recording, what do they 
  do them in 
> the recording studio to take most of the life out of 
  them?
>
> Mark
>

Pinder rolled off all the top end, sent the MKII through speakers in a room 
which was then miked up and the sound then went to an EMT plate on a 
particularly wet setting.  He did lots of overdubs and judicious footpedal 
work for his definitive sweeping effect.  Apart from the pedal work, the 
rest can't be imitated on stage easily, hence the rawness live.
 
Best,
 
M
 
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