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It seems strange that he's obsessed with getting the M400 Violin sound when Seven Stones and Starless were recorded with a MK-II. They used a MK-II on Red did they not?

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "John Wright" <john.wright@...> wrote:

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> I've seen this

person's work on You tube and he does some very nice

> covers IMHO,

particularly his cover of Starless.

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> John
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[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ClayE

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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] MK-II Violins vs M400 Violins

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> Here's a guy (Ryder Duncan AKA Squonk06) obsessed

with making M-Tron

> digital samples of MK-II Violins sound like M400

Violins. He describes a

> complex three layer, four band, two self

parametric EQ process. This

> processing might actually work. It sounds

like it does. Kinda hard to

> believe that Les Bradley dicked around with

EQ to this extent back in

> 1970.
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href="http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-7">http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-7

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> Here he is playing M-Tron "violins - 1" (MkII violins)
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDijelNipw&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDijelNipw&feature=related

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> This guy has tron-OCD and clearly needs a real M400.

:-)

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