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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues

From: Bruce Daily <pocotron@yahoo.com>
Date: 2010-10-02

Hi Mark-
   Loved your M300A demo!  I like the strings heavy on the reverb too.
 
  Martin will probably clarify this, but the tapes are not stretched.  Somewhere I read that in the early '70s the M400 tapes were produced in 2 different locations, resulting in slightly different speeds.  The differences are even heard when comparing old frames to the new frames.  Weird, huh?  God bless the pitch control!
 
   -Bruce D.


--- On Fri, 10/1/10, markpringnz <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: markpringnz <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Tuning issues
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6:39 PM

 
I've got the old tape rack back on and I have noticed something which seems to me to be odd. The old tape rack at normal speed is slightly sharp whilst the new rack is slightly flat.

I would have thought that there was more friction and possibly stretching of tape which in the old rack which would make it run flat if anything.

Mark