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

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

Mike, I am that someone and I never fuck with my samples.

fritz




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000D nice review with photos

 
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