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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Changing Tracks
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2006-01-14
In a message dated 1/14/2006 12:31:02 PM Central Standard Time, jkorb@... writes:
Bernie Kornowicz wrote:
>Anybody know if changing tracks on an M400 while pressing a key can
>damage the tape? -- Bernie
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Hi Bernie and gang, If heads are clean/polished i.e: less sliding
friction, you should be fine. Try it first on a knackered tape set,
check before and after for any miniscule changes to edges of tape.
Good Luck and happy MLK weekend . -- Jerry Korb at the M-Ranch
This can be used as an interesting technique to blend sounds on the fly. I used to like to blend chords from St. John's Wood Organ to 3-violins with my M400 (#1001) by moving the selector while holding down the keys. Kind of like the effect heard near the end of the Moodies' "Procession".
You can't do this on a MK II, but it works on the M400.
I can't do it at all now, because my trons are in storage at the moment ;-(.
Ken M.