Now here's one for you and we'd welcome your comments...................
Just recently we have been asked to tune up original recordings. One instance was the MKII Flute and the other was the MKII Brass. Both these recordings are amongst the most popular ever in the Mellotron Song Book.
As a policy we never mess as we hold to the opinion that all our favourite albums were made with the sounds as they were originally recorded. However, the tuned up versions sounded fantastic and even seasoned pedantic bastards like us agreed that it was wonderful not to have to find chord inversions to avoid THAT NOTE!
Talking with Woolly Wolstenholme, he says that half his time was spent trying to find smooth chordal progressions that kept in tune as best as possible and he had favourite notes in the M300A violins that he tried to always avoid.
There are so many dire notes amongst the recordings that you become over aware of when making tapes and the temptation is to fix the buggers. So what do you think about altering history even if the end result makes things a lot easier to use?
Best,
Martin