Days of Future Past and In Search of the Lost Chord used the original MKII preamp. By late 1968 to early 1969 the new preamp was installed. If you listen to any live recordings prior to 1969, the sound is much harsher on the tron than anything live from 1969 onwards.
Bill Rudloff
-----Original Message-----
From: tron400 <tron400@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 9:01 am
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Moodies Tron Sound
He did eventually install a solid state preamp, but I don't think he had it when NIWS was recorded.
Bernie
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@...> wrote:
>
> From my understanding, the "solid state" is referring to modifications that
> Mike had made to his Mk II.
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Vance Pomeroy <vance@...>wrote:
>
> > ∗∗
> >
> >
> > ∗∗ But Pinder used a tube amp....That's a Hiwatt on top of the tron.
> >
> >
> > On 10/12/2011 6:51 AM, David Jacques wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The Mark II 3 Violin sounds that Pinder achieved was due to the high end
> > roll-off the solid state amp gave him. Pinder has spoken several times about
> > changing the amp in his tron to achieve this sound. I don't believe it was
> > totally Tony Clark's mastery that achieved this sound as you can hear it
> > even in the raw YouTube live clips, like this one:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITFMZ_M13E
> >
> > --
> john barrick
>
> ∗Leo got it right the first time∗
> ∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗
>