I've had to throw the digital vs. real tron issue around alot. In
Cathedral I used both, in the the studio and onstage. Mainly inthat case
it was to have access to the sounds I was interested in using. I never
used M-tron or SampleTank because i couldn't get them to sound good
enough.
I've used the Nordwave but Clavia did a weird thing with their compression
on the first library they released- the mellotron sounds. The files are
small and the 3violins don't sound so good to me!
The Chamberlin library is much better. Neverthless on the whole the Nord
sounds very nice.
I can't lug my tron through clubs in Manhattan- it would get destroyed!!
At home there is nothing better than working with the M400 and M1. The
sound I get varies greatly with the kind of amplification,
preamplification and compression I use. In the 70's the generation of
tape that was in my tron was the least of my worries, what amps we used
and how we miked them up was much more a factor of the final sound.
> Because he didn't like the MKII preamplifier - it's aggressive - but KC
> loved it!
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> M
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> mellotronics.co.uk
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> On 25 Jul 2010, at 17:11, djacques@csulb.edu wrote:
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>> True. But were they "satisfied" with what was provided with the
>> production tapes? If so, why so much processing, double tracking, and
>> reverb? Why did Pinder change to a solid state preamp to get a mellower
>> sound (the Moody sound)?
>>
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>> From: tronbros <tronbros@aol.com>
>> Sender: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:12:48 +0100
>> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>> ReplyTo: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
>>
>>
>> I don't think they thought about it as they wouldn't have been aware of
>> what had gone on to create the recordings. They would have accepted what
>> was provided with no thought to what could have been. I listen to CDs
>> and vinyl in complete ignorance of what was originally recorded.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> M
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>> mellotronics.co.uk
>>
>> On 25 Jul 2010, at 16:01, David Jacques <djacques@csulb.edu> wrote:
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>> > How much doctoring did bands such as Genesis, King Crimson, and The
>> Moody Blues use when recording the Mellotron to mask these degrations?
>>
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