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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000D nice review with photos

From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: 2011-07-13

Dan Britton did. In the videos on you tube of him playing the M4000, what you here is exactly what went into the mix. Same thing with Tom Brislin. When he was here recording we recorded 19 M400 Mellotron tracks as I recall. All were recorded dry and reverb was added to some tracks later, but other than that, no tampering.
 
In a message dated 7/13/2011 3:58:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:
 

On 13/07/2011 19:00, Tony wrote:

 

Another reason a real Mellotron is better than the digital gadget, in my opinion.


I have said this before and will say it again. It is not the 'digital' business that makes it good or bad - after all, that is just a recording mechanism like tape - a means to an end.  However, it's the tampering that people feel compelled to do with the digital recordings that bothers me. Interpolating. Noise reduction. Tuning. EQing. Normalising.

So far I have found no one anywhere who has just recorded the instrument 'as is' and left it like that, warts and all. 'Honesty' aside, it would just sound better.

Mike