The Mellotron Group

Actually, I think I got it backward. You want an imperfectly perfect  
Mellotron. Oh God!!!! I'm being sucked into a black h
 
 
In a message dated 7/26/2010 2:09:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pocotron@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
Exactly!
 
Just keep doing what you're doing, Frank, you'll get there...
 
-Bruce D.
 


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From:  lsf5275@aol.From<lsf5275@aol.lsf>
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
To:  newmellotrongroup@To:  To:
Date: Monday, July 26,  2010, 6:50 AM


 
 
So you want a perfectly imperfect Mellotron... is that right?  

 
In a message dated 7/26/2010 1:31:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pocotron@yahoo. com writes:

 
     
Very true, Frank.  Good motor controllers  make it easy.  Getting to that 
perfection is like an  audiophile trying to adjust a high-end turntable for 
perfect  reproduction.  It takes work, both in time and  money.
  I want my pinch rollers to work smoothly, which  they do.  I want to hold 
down 2 handfuls of notes without  pitch lowering, and it does.  But, I also 
want  the imperfect sound of a Mellotron.
   Each machine is unique in the way it  plays or sounds.  But, I think the 
anomalies and  imperfections make the tron what it is.  I also claim  that 
these are the same qualities, however subtle, that are  lost in samples.
 
 -Stubbornly, Bruce D.


--- On Sun, 7/25/10, lsf5275@aol. com  <lsf5275@aol. com> wrote:



From:  lsf5275@aol. com <lsf5275@aol. com>
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
To:  newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, July  25, 2010, 9:58 PM


 
 
I would debate that point, Bruce. With a decent motor  and proper belt 
tension as well as having an SMS-2,  SMS-3 or SMS-5 and a properly set up 
keyboard, there  will be no noticeable change in pitch. Of course if your  pinch 
rollers are like hockey pucks and you have to crank  them and the pressure 
pads down to any degree to get it to  play, that might be true. When I get my 
Trons set up and  properly adjusted, I can strobe the flywheel and watch as 
I  play and everything is rock steady, even with many keys  depressed 
simultaneously. Now obviously most Trons are not  set up and adjusted as well as 
they can/should be or the  motors have never been cleaned, rebuilt or 
replaced.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 7/25/2010 7:35:22 P.M. Eastern  Daylight Time, 
pocotron@yahoo. com writes:

This extends to the slowing effect  that depressing a key has on the 
capstan.  Good motor  controllers smooth this out, but it is still subtly there,  
and can affect other notes already  playing.