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Re: The M-Tron

2006-04-08 by Bernie Kornowicz

I heard he had a pitch control mod that allowed him to raise or 
lower the pitch beyond the normal range.


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "charel196" <charel196@...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Mike used "half speed" which slowed the tapes down an octave. It's 
on 
> the Pinder CD Rom using the brass sound. Mike did indeed use 
> Chamberlins...I believe he had an M4(4 manual machine.)
> 
> 
> > 
> > It's about as close as I'm going to get to the real thing 
however,
> > I would like to know how Mike Pinder got all those low notes, 
and was
> >  he using more Chamberlin sounds in combination with the MK.2 in 
the 
> > early days?
> > I heard that on "The Seventh Sojourn,"he used a lot of 
Chamberlin.
> > I think that that album has some awsome "Tron" on it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Fretless
> >
>

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