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Subject: Fwd: [Mellotronists] Another eBay Tron

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2009-12-24


It's always an interesting discussion.  Those formats are not dead, they're just not as popular for those with no sense of delayed gratification.  Digital is wonderful as a "professional" format. Instead of allowing it to be a case of semantics, i.e. "dead", I think it's more accurate to view them as legacy formats, still being used, but not profitable for the manufacturers of gear or the media professional trying to kick projects out the door faster then ever.  If everyone has the same sample rate, bit depth, libraries, plug ins, what sets you apart?

I grew up on tape, and I'll never go back to using it as a robust recording format, but damn if I don't know how to use it as a processor.  Working with tape is about logic, process, problem solving.  Digital is not, and I am facile on both.

I do agree with you on VHS, just the worst thing ever invented.  Helical scan piece of crap!


fritz


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Valone <stuffoncraigslist@yahoo.com>
To: lsf5275@aol.com; newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Dec 24, 2009 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Another eBay Tron

 
im sorry to piss you off...   but i'm part of the ipod generation.  there is reason why cassette tapes, 8-track, reel-to-reel, vhs, etc. all died as a format.  digital is the way to go.
 
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From: "lsf5275@aol. com" <lsf5275@aol. com>
To: stuffoncraigslist@ yahoo.com; newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com; Mellotronists@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, December 24, 2009 12:03:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Another eBay Tron

 
Screw off. Memontrons are for sissies. Mellotrons are reliable. Many of the people that have owned them are not.
 
In a message dated 12/24/2009 10:59:52 A.M.. Eastern Standard Time, stuffoncraigslist@ yahoo.com writes:
forget that junk go digital get a memotron with all the tape banks they ever made on one machine.  why bother being stuck with three and an unreliable machine you have to fix more than a Ford Pickup Truck.