Mellotronists

> In a message dated 5/23/2007 8:50:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> charel196@... writes:
>
> just  thinking outloud here...I'm surprised that the scientists at Streetly
> didn't  embrace the
> concepts alluded to in Justin Mayer's home-brewed J-Tron...low  profile
> cabinet, 8 or 16
> track tape..combining the best of Chamberlin  & tron tech with state of the
> art circuitry and
> motors etc. and  internal digital efx.


if you think it through it doesn't make sense to do all that.
new heads.
[what size? how many tracks? from where?]

new tapes.
[see above, plus imagine the time involved in custom-order multitrack tape
sets!]

built in digital effects?
[why? it would only add to the cost and would no doubt only please some of
the people some of the time - there are affordable and versatile units
that are far more flexible as far as personal taste goes]

...and as frank pointed out: this method retains nearly complete
compatibility, thus enabling part swaps and the sound library
does not have to be remastered/reformatted.

IMHO they did the right thing.

...jeff