The Mellotron Group

Owen,
Beautiful job on Out and In.
Pete

thinkingalouduk wrote:
> (Oh lordy is it really eight months since I last logged on here?  Gah!  Hi everyone.)
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> If it's any use to you, I mocked up the Tuesday Afternoon Mellotron parts last year when this question came up before - you can hear them here:
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> http://thinking-aloud.co.uk/playsong.php?TuesdayAftertron.mp3
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> On this one I've used the Mellotron Archives CD samples for both voices.  The EQ chops all the top and bottom off, with a bit of a boost in the middle.  There's a bit of reverb on both sides.  (Interestingly, after doing this, I came across a partial recording of Tuesday Afternoon from (presumably) an 8-track version, which had just the Mellotron parts in exactly the same way.)
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> For the later Pinderesque sound, as it got mellower, I've used a wetter reverb (more reverb than dry signal) which gives the sounds you can hear in this track (which is all M-Tron):
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> http://thinking-aloud.co.uk/playsong.php?Out_And_In.mp3
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> (I did this track just to see how close I could get to the original recording.  Please excuse the singing - I had a dreadful cold at the time!)
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> Tron sounds of this ilk can be found on other tracks on the website there - click the header to go to the main page.
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> Hope that's of some interest to someone!
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> Owen
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