Mellotron MK II moving violins through Digitech Whammy

Video Title :	Mellotron MK II moving violins through Digitech Whammy
Description :	Yesterday was a really interesing day in a lot of ways...I started out by recording some drums for my good friend Niclas Criborn. Doing some pitch experiments and moogerfoogering. Then two friends from Västerås and brought a large synthesizer.com system for me to try out so that I would get a better understanding of how they work as I have been curious about them for years. Sadly enough the experience left me impressed, inspired and utterly confused. So to round off the day I thought I could make some standard films of pedals trying to show and demonstrate a bit how they work. Usually when people do this they use a drum machine or a arpggiated synth so I thought that maybe I could do something a bit different...so I recorded a little loop into a Boss loopstation of the Mellotron MK II strings and then tried that through a bunch of pedals. This film was shot at the Roth Händle studios in stockholm with a simple Nokia phone. The studio is filled with odd and interesting instruments including Mellotrons, optigans and piles of other analog goodies. If you are curious about the studio please take a stroll by www.roth-handle.nu
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Keywords, Tags :	Mellotron Mk II moving violins digitech whammy chamberlin filter sonic alienator frostwave analog tape replay
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Comments :

You can get a way more better quality midi pedal for $15 that does mor for you and use your plug ins which blow it away., i mean out of the water, trust me the thing is a joke i A/B'ed the stupid Whammy pedal with 4 different free plugs out there and it suxs, try it yourself. I am saying all this cuz i dont think it is worth the price! :)

i forgot to add that the WHammy is MONO, does not use batteries, there is a also a 3rd party product to help one use there foot to turn parameters but you also can not still see them unless you kneel down to the point you can reach with your hands anyway, which you will end up needed after you break the thing from turning it after a while with your feet. Sorry but this product is in the dark ages still.

Thank you Peter for your comments. I don't use a computer or plug ins when I record and I enjoy using the whammy in my studio and recordings. I also like to use old equipment like Mellotrons and Optigans. Instruments that definitely belong in the dark ages. But like the whammy they have their own charm and I like it. Maybe there is something about the imperfections that appeal to me. Best regards, Mattias

Great ! Thanks Peter. Personally I am not really a big fan of plug-ins and computers generally. I prefer to work with physical instruments and effects for good and worse. But...I think everyone should just use whatever works for them. If you are comfortable working with computers and plug ins you should. But...when they start selling whammy pedals for 50 euros...let me know.

That's the thing though: it's a plug-in, I prefer my effects to be real so I can actually manipulate them by hand and whatnot. Plus there's things that having a physical version of an effect can do that a VST can't like moving it around in a rig of pedals. Everyone's got their own preference though, I know there's also plenty of advantages to a plug-in as well.

I am not sure about how many pedals I have but I know that a lot of my pedals will never be turned into a plug in...like the Rocktek super delay. I use my pedals more or less like a modular synth system as filters et.c and I thoroughly enjoy pulling cables and experimenting. That is how I started recording and it has worked so far. Now me and my good friend Nicklas Eriksson are working on putting them all into cases together with my modular stuff to make it even more open ended...

NICE! If you ever want to buy a surprisingly useful pedal for creating interesting sounds, check out the Digitech Digiverb pedal: some of the strangest sounds I've gotten come from having it on either reversed or gated reverb and then tweaking the Level button.

Thanks. I'll look into it. How pricey are they ? I still use the Alesis Midiverb 2 for some stuff.

About $100 American, you can probably find it for less though.

O.k it´s on the list...