Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Hi Michale,

The point I was trying to make is that the Mellotron is great at what it does but you could never get a good grand piano (for example) due to

the velocity sensitivity of the tumbrel nuances caused be the touch of the player.  16k would put it on par with an inexpensive cassette deck.  But if

we never had the Mellotron I think we would have lost the classic sound that would not have “naturally” occurred in a sampler with more

response, less noise, etc.  Have you ever run a test tape through a machine to plot a response curve?  I would bet you are probably down 3db at 16k. 

Are the heads in the current machines the same as in the older ones?  For the record I was not trying to criticize the Mellotron and I know and respect

that you manufacture these machines as a labor of love.  So please do not take any offense.  There are a lot of bad samples out there as well as some good

ones.  Mike D. pointed out that many of the bad ones are pre processed and I would prefer to make any of those decisions myself starting with the original

basic sound of the instrument. 

Cheers,

Gary