The Mellotron Group

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Andy Kinch <kinchmusic@...> wrote:
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> I have just received and fitted a new set of tapes to my m400 and thought I'd share a couple of interesting points raised with Martin.
> Mixed brass B: In it's basic form there were quite a few notes completely out of tune and as such were rendered useless imo. Martin kindly offered to gently re-tune the offenders, and he has to great effect! Anyone familiar with Mbb will know that the whole set's tuning is suspect accross the entire keyboard, Hence the rather nice "ensemble" buzz when playing chords. I know the re-tuning of the original recordings is something some members aren't entirley comfortable with, but in this case, there's no doubt in my mind mbb is now much more usable as a consequence. Even the notes that have been tweaked are still very slightly out and perfectly in keeping with the others. Great job Mr Smith!
> The revered Mk2 3 violins: The set I ordered was Mbb/ Mk violins and 8 choir. Upon firing them up for the first time, I was immediately impressed by the violins. They somehow sounded much sweeter than I have heard them before. On pressing Martin for an explanation, he revealed that he has de-noised them, again to great effect. Please remember that I'd already decided how much I liked them before the big reveal why that was. They just sound "right" imo.
> So if you want a bit of sonic improvement over the original mbb and violins, why not make the switch. Brilliant tweaks imo, and a worthy addition to the tron sound library.
> Hope someone out there finds this info useful.
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> Andy K
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> Andy Kinch
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Absolutely. Thank you for the informative review.


fritz

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Kinch <kinchmusic@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 8:39 am
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] New tapes.

I have just received and fitted a new set of tapes to my m400 and thought I'd share a couple of interesting points raised with Martin.

Mixed brass B: In it's basic form there were quite a few notes completely out of tune and as such were rendered useless imo. Martin kindly offered to gently re-tune the offenders, and he has to great effect! Anyone familiar with Mbb will know that the whole set's tuning is suspect accross the entire keyboard, Hence the rather nice "ensemble" buzz when playing chords. I know the re-tuning of the original recordings is something some members aren't entirley comfortable with, but in this case, there's no doubt in my mind mbb is now much more usable as a consequence. Even the notes that have been tweaked are still very slightly out and perfectly in keeping with the others. Great job Mr Smith!

The revered Mk2 3 violins: The set I ordered was Mbb/ Mk violins and 8 choir. Upon firing them up for the first time, I was immediately impressed by the violins. They somehow sounded much sweeter than I have heard them before. On pressing Martin for an explanation, he revealed that he has de-noised them, again to great effect. Please remember that I'd already decided how much I liked them before the big reveal why that was. They just sound "right" imo.

So if you want a bit of sonic improvement over the original mbb and violins, why not make the switch. Brilliant tweaks imo, and a worthy addition to the tron sound library.

Hope someone out there finds this info useful.

Andy K

Andy Kinch
kinchmusic@aol.com

I must explain the denoising. We don't mess with the recordings other than to remove glaring errors in tuning that render certain notes useless. However, we became aware that the build up of noise through copying over the years had become a distraction in certain recordings, most notably the 3 violins. So Andy became the guinea pig and without telling him, I sent the recently denoised version of the most iconic recording in the mellotron canon. This left all the fundamentals in place but with the noise bands removed.....carefully. His reaction says it all and it is now generally available having received such a generous and positive response. Not all recordings need this treatment but some most definitely benefit. There are others completed and the work is in progress. Rest assured that all the bias popping, noisy and ill tuned recordings remain available but the truth is that being purist can stifle what lies beneath!

Best,

Martin

mellotronics.com on my iPad

On 24 Nov 2012, at 14:21, fdoddy@aol.com wrote:

Absolutely. Thank you for the informative review.


fritz

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Kinch <kinchmusic@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 8:39 am
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] New tapes.

I have just received and fitted a new set of tapes to my m400 and thought I'd share a couple of interesting points raised with Martin.

Mixed brass B: In it's basic form there were quite a few notes completely out of tune and as such were rendered useless imo. Martin kindly offered to gently re-tune the offenders, and he has to great effect! Anyone familiar with Mbb will know that the whole set's tuning is suspect accross the entire keyboard, Hence the rather nice "ensemble" buzz when playing chords. I know the re-tuning of the original recordings is something some members aren't entirley comfortable with, but in this case, there's no doubt in my mind mbb is now much more usable as a consequence. Even the notes that have been tweaked are still very slightly out and perfectly in keeping with the others. Great job Mr Smith!

The revered Mk2 3 violins: The set I ordered was Mbb/ Mk violins and 8 choir. Upon firing them up for the first time, I was immediately impressed by the violins. They somehow sounded much sweeter than I have heard them before. On pressing Martin for an explanation, he revealed that he has de-noised them, again to great effect. Please remember that I'd already decided how much I liked them before the big reveal why that was. They just sound "right" imo.

So if you want a bit of sonic improvement over the original mbb and violins, why not make the switch. Brilliant tweaks imo, and a worthy addition to the tron sound library.

Hope someone out there finds this info useful.

Andy K

Andy Kinch
kinchmusic@aol.com

So are these denoised sounds on the M3000 iPad app and MTron Pro?
Bill Rudloff