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

From: john barrick <barrickjohn262@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-07-15

But the first two examples are Streetly making higher quality sources available, not altering or tampering with said source material.  To be fair, re-timing does sound technically like tampering...

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, feline1973 <feline1@feline1.co.uk> wrote:
 


Mike, examples of where the Streetly tape library mentions explicit improvements to the original sounds... (not that I'm saying these don't sound like improvements - but if purists are going to carp about any remastering of the M4000D sounds...)

∗∗Boy's Choir
...this sound was often much maligned due to its rather inferior sound quality. However, subsequent finds have unearthed a far earlier generation copy of the same sound which offers a substantial improvement

∗∗MkII Flute
For some time, this sound has been made available on a rather poor recording which features all manner of drop-outs and bias pops. Now, with the discovery of a far earlier generation copy of the same sound, Streetly Electronics can now offer a Mk II flute that is as yet unsurpassed anywhere in terms of clarity and strength.

∗∗ MKII
Original leads (re-timed) [does that mean 'rhtyhms and fills'?]

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john barrick

∗Leo got it right the first time∗
∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗