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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Saw the Moodies 2 Wednesdays ago

From: David Jacques <djacques@csulb.edu>
Date: 2011-06-06

The Pinder MKII violins had a severe high freq cutoff that made them a lot "Mellower"... And they were drenched in reverb.  Thats that I do when I play Moodies songs with my tron samples on my Motif XS.


On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:55 AM, tron400 wrote:

The Pinder MkII Violins don't sound anything like the MkII Violins sound on an M400. They seem to have a thinner sound.

bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@...> wrote:
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> I had some correspondence with Dave Kean about 10 years ago and he confirmed that Pinder wasn't really involved at all but gave it his "endorsement". i was under the impression, though, that a MkII ,M300,M400 and MI were all used and equipped with nice fresh tapes.
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Chris Dale wrote:
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> > Yes, unless any of you specifically know better, Mike Pinder's Mellotrons were never sampled for that Pinder CD.
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> > To my knowledge it's regular 400's and Pinder had little actual involvement other than as a yay / naysayer to the final edits.
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> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:33 PM, <lsf5275@...> wrote:
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> > Not necessarily true.
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> > In a message dated 6/5/2011 2:19:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, fourtytwominds@... writes:
> > (for chrissake those trons WERE on tour with THIS very band)
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