On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Vance Pomeroy <vance@juniperpacific.com> wrote:Ah! The miracle of a talented producer.....The Sixth Moody, Tony Clarke, had a major part to play in their sound, like it or not.
Vance (with shields up)
On 10/11/2011 5:22 PM, Chris Dale wrote:It's the same string sound a 400 has but the sound is coming from (at that time) the MK II tube preamps, miked up speakers, and an plate reverb.
It's more the processing than the actual tapes. Modifying the Mellotron came later.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Mark <markpringnz@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not a Moody Blues fan but just been listening to "nights" again, not a song I like but the mellotron sound really is wonderful, I think the Mark II has a sound of it's own I don't believe you could make an M400 sound like that.
Mark
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Nights in White Satin
2011-10-12 by Mark
I probably am wrong, but I reckon I could tell the always tell difference between an M400 and a Mark II playing the 3 violins, there seems to be a completely different tonal quality to the sound. I'd certainly agree that most of the quality of the mellotron sound is due to how it's processed, it would be interesting to compare the raw output of an M400 and Mark II.