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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Thomas C. Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org> wrote:I was surprised- I played a Mk1 (Jerry Korb's) along side my freshly
renovated M400-through the same amp and heard only a slight
difference....more in the flutes than the strings. I think the processing
was hugely responsible for the Moody sound. I'm very interested in the
difference in tone from Court of the Crimson King, 2000 Light Years From
Home and Days of Future Past.
> I probably am wrong, but I reckon I could tell the always tell difference
> between an M400 and a Mark II playing the 3 violins, there seems to be a
> completely different tonal quality to the sound. I'd certainly agree that
> most of the quality of the mellotron sound is due to how it's processed,
> it
> would be interesting to compare the raw output of an M400 and Mark II.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Vance Pomeroy
> <vance@juniperpacific.com>wrote:
>
>> ∗∗
>>
>>
>> ∗∗ Ah! The miracle of a talented producer.....The Sixth Moody, Tony
>> Clarke, had a major part to play in their sound, like it or not.
>>
>> Vance (with shields up)
>>
>> On 10/11/2011 5:22 PM, Chris Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> It's the same string sound a 400 has but the sound is coming from (at
>> that
>> time) the MK II tube preamps, miked up speakers, and an plate reverb.
>>
>> It's more the processing than the actual tapes. Modifying the Mellotron
>> came later.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Mark <markpringnz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not a Moody Blues fan but just been listening to "nights" again,
>>> not a
>>> song I like but the mellotron sound really is wonderful, I think the
>>> Mark II
>>> has a sound of it's own I don't believe you could make an M400 sound
>>> like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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