The Mellotron Group

Yes, and fortunately we have Fritz to provided them with all the Bass they  
can eat.
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/19/2012 7:33:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
gabru@comsec.net writes:

 
 
 
 
You’d be  surprised once it’s in the mix and effects were added….maybe you 
could barely  discern something listening to the raw  
output…but as  chaos theory tells us….nothing is really random……you are 
really splitting  hairs if you think even two Mellotrons  
are going to  sound the same…sounds like you are trying to convince 
yourself that something  like to M4000D is really going to be  
identified as  a “fake” by anyone in a recorded or live setting when 
played by someone who  knows how to play Mellotron lines correctly  
….it’s the  same thing with the Hammond clones……. 
 
 
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of  fdoddy@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:07  PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] need opinions for making a mellotron  
choice

 
 
 
 
It's all about  the chaos of the real thing for me. You CANNOT get that in 
a soft instrument.  That is where the art lives.

fritz
 

 

 
-----Original  Message-----
From: Gary Brumm <_gabru@comsec.net_ (mailto:gabru@comsec.net) >
To:  newmellotrongroup <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) >
Sent:  Sun, Feb 19, 2012 2:31 pm
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] need opinions  for making a mellotron 
choice 
 
 
 
 
 
 
That’s  ridiculous Gino ….most every M4000D review has been staggering in 
its  praise.  I will most likely make the Streetly samples my next “Mellotron
”  type purchase 
 
due to price  but the M4000D had done to the Mellotron what the Ventilator 
has tone for the  122 Leslie….for all practical purposes it has replaced it. 
 I think the  
 
Streetly  group are wonderful people and put a lot of care into every 
machine they builb  but you can’t ignore the reality that the day has come that 
these tape  machines 
 
have been  relegated to collectors and enthusiasts and the season of the 
tape machine has  past as a mainstream instrument for the sounds it produces.  
We all like  the 
 
Streetly  group and this is meant with no disrespect at all…just an 
observation that is  hard to deny and I am sure it has not been lost on Streetly.  
If tape  machine sales 
 
were still  “booming” I doubt they would be selling samples and iPhone 
apps.  Now I  am sure I will be lambasted by the hard core tape guys but 
understand I am  here 
 
because of  the tape machines and my lifelong interest in them so please 
keep that in mind  before slinging the dung.  
 

 
Lock &  Load!
 

 
Gary
 

 

 
 
 
From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   [_mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com?) ]  On Behalf Of gino wong
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:37  AM
To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] need opinions for making a mellotron  
choice


 

 

 
 
 
 
 
Don't get me  started on a 4000D. I know people who are full time working 
musicians who's  records we have all bought and it is regarded as adirty 
oppurtunistic fake,  like a guitar with Gribson or Pender on the headstock, 
there were such things.  

 
 
If you can't  afford a real Mellotron then don't bother buying an ersatrz 
device.. get a  laptop or a sampler, theat plays Streetly approved samples. I 
have a Melotron  and a computer and a sampler but I have felt no need for a 
thing that  replicates a common thing like sample playback. If there was 
anything about  these machines that made them special in termsof functionality 
I would not  hesitate to reccomend.EG : I can't find a anything that 
repliactes my Crumar  Performer.

 
 


 
 
A VST playback  module like the Muse would be what I would buy
 
 


 
 
Look up the  gear approach used by Radio Massacre International. A stripped 
down sampler  with good samplesin a solid easy to maintain hardware shell 
and power sypply  that demands no work to replace .is a great  thing. 
 
 
On Sun, Feb 19,  2012 at 11:08 AM, mkmellotron <_mkmellotron@yahoo.gr_ 
(mailto:mkmellotron@yahoo.gr) >  wrote:
 
 

 
 
 
 
greatings from Greece
i am  considering buying a digital mellotron,(i would prefer the analogue 
M4000 by  streetly but it is way too expensive...)
So please share your thoughts  M4000D or memotron / memotron rack.
Your opinions will be very  usefull,thanks in advance

ps: (i have the software) it is for  gigging!!





 




 


 
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"All music is  folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

 
 
Louis  Armstrong

 
 


 
 


 
 
Gino Wong  Birgelo  

 
 
BSComm,  BSEE, CG, CSEC  

 
 
Audio  Production, Logistics, Analog Synthesizers, Sound Design
 
 


 
 
_Ginowong@gmail.com_ (mailto:Ginowong@gmail.com)