The Mellotron Group

Thanks for the info Mike, great arrangement!

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Dickson
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:23 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron Restoration



Gary Brumm wrote:

Another beautiful job Frank.  I hope you do something similar with the 4 track restoration.  The sound track
was brilliant Mike.  I have listened to this on your site several times before and really enjoyed it.  Can you tell me how
you recorded it (voiced, # of tracks, equipment used, etc.)?

There is a fair bit about Mars and others on the main mellotronworks web page. The hardware is

* Mellotron M400 #996
* Mackie 1202 mixer
* Alesis MIDIverb (though most sounds were recorded dry)
* PC running ACID Pro, plus a bunch of plug-ins, including Adobe Audition which I used for track-by-track noise reduction.

All pretty simple.

Here is a run down on the sounds on the 24 tracks:

* Brass: 3 x Mk II brass, 'Rick Bleckta' French Horns, half speed French horn (for 'tuba'), St Johns Wood Church Organ (processed for 'brassiness', and doubled an octave below), 2 x GC3 brass, Mk II brass, processed and muted Mk II brass

* Strings: 'Louise Davis' pizz. cello, 2 x Mk II strings, string section, 'Cyndee Lee Rule' viola

* Woodwinds: Mk II flute, clarinet, half speed clarinet, cor anglais/oboe, bassoon

* Percussion: concert snare (sample), Mellotron gong, timpani/roll (samples from a slack and detuned tom-tom )


Mike