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Subject: M4000D Rack Mount

From: dan_miso@yahoo.com
Date: 2014-11-05

Hello folks:

 

I received my M4000D Rack Mount today with the extra expansion card.  The back end has all of the outputs of the full size M4000D.  It comes with a pretty cloth with Union Jack Mellotron logo for cleaning the screens.  I set it up at lunch today and I guess I activated the 2nd series sound card as I was playing MKI and MKII rhythms and fills at one point. I switched to the nylon guitar as I have the same loaded on a rack in one of my M400's.  The sound seems sharper on the digital version but is quite pleasant just the same.  I hooked up the rack to a vacuum tube pre-amp and it sounds nice. Then I connected into a Lexicon reverb and it sounded very nice.

It is a suitable augmentation to my 2 M400's with 8 tape racks and when my M400's are naughty I can switch to the M4000D and become less frustrated.  I would have no hope of playing the 200 tron sounds without the digital version. I chose the M4000D over the Memotron rack as I like the Operating System better. As I have no computer nearby, I chose it over the M-tron Pro also.  When one of my boys upgrade their laptops, I will take the old one and probably get the M-tron Pro in order to access the Streetly Tapes, of which all of my tape racks are comprised.

 

Cheers,

Dan

M400S 1167

M400 E4/7600S

M4000D Rack 020