The Mellotron Group

On 13/07/2011 19:00, Tony wrote:

Another reason a real Mellotron is better than the digital gadget, in my opinion.

I have said this before and will say it again. It is not the 'digital' business that makes it good or bad - after all, that is just a recording mechanism like tape - a means to an end. However, it's the tampering that people feel compelled to do with the digital recordings that bothers me. Interpolating. Noise reduction. Tuning. EQing. Normalising.

So far I have found no one anywhere who has just recorded the instrument 'as is' and left it like that, warts and all. 'Honesty' aside, it would just sound better.

Mike