This is an instrumental production music library album made for Ravenwood Music Ltd.
As with Volume 1, apart from drums, some bass guitar and percussion, all the instrument sounds on this record were made originally by a Mellotron or one of its contemporary tape/disc-based playback instruments.
The sounds were picked from GForce’s M-Tron Pro tape libraries including those for the Chamberlin, Optigan, Birotron, and the complete Streetly Tapes collection. This time, each track was built around one of the Optigan rhythm accompaniments. As before, the unedited mono patches were used to preserve the tone and functionality of the original instruments.
Drums were recorded to tape using two AKG D12 microphones at shoulder height just behind the kit. Bass was overdubbed direct through Logic’s Amp Designer. Mix effects and processing used: Waves Kramer Pie compressor, Reel ADT, Abbey Road Reverb Plates & J37 Tape (for echo).