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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring
<mellotronmadness@...> wrote:
>
> Well I was just coming rounding to thinking of planning to buy a
Mark VI until these posts starting appearing, how many hours a week
do you have to spend keeping these things going? My electronic and
engineering skills are pretty limited and Streetly's are 12000 miles
away, I think I'll stick to samples for now.
>
> Mark
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends
http://au.messenger.yahoo.com >
RE: Hopefully I can speak for the majority of the owners who own
RELIABLE units whatever the model. First if you read the posts of
unit problems/ mishaps that appear on this site, consider this: the
reason for posting problems or remedies on this site is to try to
find a solution. Do people post messages when everything goes well?
These instruments have gotten a bad rap over the years and for the
most part by those who do not understand or take the effort to know
the workings of these units, with the exception of units that were
inferior from the start, like the EMI on ebay, again repairable.
Second, there are enough people on this site with the knowledge to
solve almost any problem and there are enough tech tips available
that you should be able to assemble one from the ground up
blindfolded.
I also fell for the hype somewhat until I bit the bullet and took it
out in a live situation and guess what? with all the shortcomings of
30 years of aging it still went the distance with no mishaps and now
that it is refurbished, it behaves so much better. Took it out in
50 degree weather last week and had no adjusting to do after warm-
up. Refer to the MONEYPIT article of June 2006 to see before and
after, real "basket cases" that are back to life and making
themselves useful again.
As for the poor fella's mishap with the audio board, it was'nt the
fault of the machine as an honest mistake.
It is hard to draw a total picture here unless you have one in
front of you but please do not be intimidated into believing these
are unreliable, they are not, and if you ask anyone here who has
done their homework on these units, they will I'm sure agree. And
if you are planning on a Mk VI then all the shortcomings of it's
predecessor have been addressed. Hope this changes your outlook. --
---Doug