The Mellotron Group

I once had to do Flight of the Bumble Bee at 9 AM at an ungodly tempo.  Lotsa grumpy players that day.

In my limited experience recording tron sounds, I think the biggest pain would be reducing the smear caused by mushy note attacks with such a large ensemble. Those first milliseconds is where the magic happens...


I'm famous for "footballs" actually. It's how you go from one to the other that's  fun for me.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 10:19 am
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: NAMM Report


  
    
                  



On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Fritz Doddy wrote:


Say 65 players, which is decent size, coupla hours of studio time... 13.5k on the low end, 20k on the high end for top shelf NY players. Considering the tron is mono, you could nearly the same effect with far fewer players if voiced creatively.

Sorry for the brevity as I am replying from a remote region of iPhonekstan.


Yes, but there's also the chorus, a pipe organ and Martin would insist on at least dancing bears, if not elephants. A chariot race  between C1 and F#2 would also be nice if cost is no object.


In thinking about this, I guess you'd have to give the orchestra music in order to maximize the time spent. I can imagine their expressions as they look at 35 "footballs" on their pages. No dynamics, no tempo, no nothin'. That alone might be worth the money!