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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972

From: David Jacques <djacques@csulb.edu>
Date: 2010-06-17

I used to perform with a MiniMoog in the 70's and 80's... I cannot tell you how many times I had to tune that thing during a performance. I have never had issues with my Motif's in performance.... Now I love analog gear and grew up during the 60's and 70's playing this gear. But when it comes to live performance, I prefer the stability of good digital gear.


On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 AM, tony1 wrote:


Analog, analog, analog!
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: ClayE
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Price of Mellotron in 1972

 

With digital gear the troubles are almost always a sudden and total failure like "no output" or "hopelessly out of tune". The old electro-mechanical and analog instruments tend to fail more gracefully.

I have seen / heard a few live keyboard disasters recently. The Spoons in Toronto last year. The synth arpeggiator stuff was way out of tune, and off tempo for every song. The rest of the band looked like they wanted to kill the synth geek. 

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@...> wrote:
> > I¹ve had more troubles with my digital gear.