From Brian Kehew...More Mellotron MK II!!
Monday, May 19, 2008 at 07:42AM Ahhh...nothing like a sunrise edition of Matrixsynth! Have a peek at this post that I have so lazily and lovingly scissored and glued for you....
via Brian Kehew:
"Two good friends of ours were getting married, and asked Roger Manning and I (the Moog Cookbook) to play the wedding. It's not something we would normally do, but these would really good friends. We decided to surprise them by doing the show in tuxedos and space helmets, on a Mellotron Mk.II. This Mk.II is one of a few made in black, originally came from Graham Nash of the Hollies.
In order to prepare, I did some demos of the tunes, and have some mp3s of this. As you may have seen the LEFT side of the MkII is all rhythm parts and "fills" (instruments that superimpose over the rhythms.) The RIGHT side keyboard has all the main sounds you know from Mellotrons. I've added a custom set of sounds on the right, but what you hear is mainly stock sounds; basically what a 1964 Mellotron demo performance would be like, but with more modern songs. It's only a 2-track recording (left and right) without editing, just played live, but that does show how cool the Mellotron sound was when played as intended. If people like these, I have more to hear sometime..."
Click here to travel to Matrixsynth and listen to the samples.
Click here & here for more Brian Kehew links on AnalogSuicide featuring a 4 part series of Brian's Mellotron MK II.
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