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Subject: Subject= Re: M4000D nice review with photos

From: "feline1973" <feline1@feline1.co.uk>
Date: 2011-07-16

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@...> wrote:
>
> 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...


The sound of a mellotron is the sound of reduced-bandwith wowed-and-fluttered non-linear-tape-distortion.

By using higher generation tapes than those which provided the classic sounds people heard on their favourite records,
there's definately a risk of reducing the 'character' of the sound.

However I should be clear that I'm not one of the people complaining about such things!