The Mellotron Group

You can get an M400 to sound like an M300 'cos it's the same heads and a transistor preamp/lineamp arrangement.  Woolly was NOT going to use M300B violins.

M

mellotronics.co.uk



On 23 Jun 2012, at 11:29, "markpringnz" <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
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> Do you think you can get an M400 to sound exactly like a Mark II or an M300? I think that maybe the tube pre amps make a difference to the sound. I wonder what Woolly was planning to do with the M300b strings, it's not a sound I'm familiar with, I assume he was going to mix it with the Mark II violins, how were the tracks organised?
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> Mark
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, tronbros <tronbros@...> wrote:
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> > Woolly never used the M300B violins. We were looking at adding a spring line reverb to the M400 before his sad demise as he wanted to get the sound he loved, a smattering of dry and a whole lot of spring!
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> > mellotronics.co.uk
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> > On 23 Jun 2012, at 01:57, "markpringnz" <markpringnz@...> wrote:
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> > > Wish I could get to hear it. Did Woolly ask for the M300b strings? I think in recent years he used the 3 violins in the studio and the m300 violins live. Or was that the other way round?
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> > > Mark
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> > > PS Obession warning, ignore this bit
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> > > When Woolly left BJH I don't think the M300 went with him, post BJH he used the M400 and I don't think the tron sound was ever the same. The mellotron sound that I am obsessed with is the M300 violin sound played live on an M300, the BJH live album from 74 gives a good example of this, I didn't particularly like the BJH studio tron sound.
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> > > Of interest to me anyway is that the M300 broke down whilst they were recording the live album and some of the tron parts were over dubbed in the studio later, I can't tell which, so they could get that sound in the studio.
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> > > Does anyone know or care which tracks were overdubbed?
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> > > Ah, thats better, I think I'll have a lie down now.
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> > > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "ClayE" <ecclesreinson@> wrote:
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> > > > Spectrum Road (Vernon Reid, Jack Bruce, Cindy Blackman-Santana and John Medeski) will be using my Mellotron MK-VI at The Sound Academy in Toronto next Wednesday. Streetly tape frame will be 3V's, IM Flute and M300 B Strings. It's the tape frame that was laced-up for Woolly Wolstenholme but never used.
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> > > > Can't wait to hear it through a megawatt sound system.
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> > > > Clay 
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> > > > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, mlcsixand78s <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > > > http://youtu.be/fY1PweehYRw
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> > > > > -Allan
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