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

From: "Thomas C. Doncourt" <tomdcour@amnh.org>
Date: 2011-07-16

don't worry-any additional high quality that is added can be easily
remedied by playing the tron trough a peice-o-shit amplifier!

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>
> --- 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...
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>
> 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!
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>