The Mellotron Group

An M400 flight case makes a great amplifier isolation box for recording.  You can overdrive the amp and crank it up to 11 without frightening the shit out of your pets.  You just need a small hole in it to run the amp input, power and mic cables trough.  So far, I have only tried a Fender Champion 600 and a 300 watt home-made combo amp with a SM57.  Both amps sounded great.  I think that the key to getting that 'edgy' sound is that it is a live microphone (not direct) and that the Decibels are in the brain damage zone.


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas C. Doncourt" <tomdcour@...> wrote:

>  I have tried recording mellotron through amps but not through a marshall or hiwatt though it is on my to do list. Maybe that is the only way to get that cutting edge.