The Mellotron Group

Fritz is right. I've had many chances to see live Trons and to hear sampled 
 Trons in a live settings. There has yet to be an occasion when I have 
heard  samples where I could close my eyes and think it was the real thing. With 
Astra  it was really obvious and easy to compare because they played both. 
Samples are  easy to bury in the mix when recording and it often is less 
obvious.
 
Fritz, you're giving up modeling to play the guitar? Fascinating!
 
 
In a message dated 7/22/2010 10:09:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fdoddy@aol.com writes:

 
 
 
The digital stuff  shows its shortcomings in a live situation.  One can 
fake it in the  studio to a degree, but samples have no "pop" in a live format. 
 Whether  it's fake wurly, tron, organ, it doesn't matter.  The real 
instruments  always have better presence and energy in my 35 years of live 
performance  experience.  It's most noticeable on trons.  Mr. Stickle can back me  
up on this.  Take notice of all the younger bands going the extra mile  and 
schlepping non-digital gear on stage.

I just bought a new high gain  class A British guitar amp because I am done 
with modeling. There is no  lasting love for vintage/traditional emulation 
with me.  I'd rather use  the digital stuff to do what analog can't do, 
that's just my preference. Don't  get me wrong, I am in love with Ableton Live 
and most Native Instruments VI's,  but when I need a real instrument, I use 
the real instrument whenever I  can.


fritz








-----Original  Message-----
From: MAinPsych@aol.Fro
To:  newmellotrongroup@To:  newmTo:
Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 7:46  pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron


 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/22/2010 4:10:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
_fdoddy@aol.com_ (mailto:fdoddy@aol.com)   writes:

Try them both in a live  situation.  It'll be painfully obvious which is 
the better  machine....


fritz   tron#1697




Please elaborate.