Mellotronists

Hmmm, if push comes to shove I'd plump for a few tweaks to these:

The more duff notes on the MkII Brass - much as it is one of my
favourite sounds I can think of a couple of dodgy notes that would
benefit...8 Choir, Cello, Mixed Brass B (which seems mostly fine apart
from a rather suspect middle C) - M300A violins and perhaps Trombone
(mind you, I guess all of this also depends on how popular sounds such
as the trombone are to start with - from a business point of view it
obviously still has to be worth your while doing it, I suppose in a
way there wouldn't be much point in tweaking sounds that may not be in
as much demand anyway!) .

I'm not so sure about the MkII Flutes and the MKII Violins - although
between them they do have the odd notes that are slightly sharp in
some places and slightly flat in others, in my experience they have
only ever been slight discrepancies in tuning, they have never been
bad enough for me to avoid particular notes on those - on the
contrary, it has added to the character. On reflection, right now I'm
inclined to agree with Andy K on this one - if those particular sounds
were tuned perfectly I can't help thinking they might lose something
(if there were notes which were really bad I'd alter those and leave
it at that). But then I haven't heard the corrected versions so it's
hard to say - I'll be very interested to hear them, I could well be
completely bowled over by them. Either way though, I certainly think
that it's still best to have both 'before' and 'after' versions available.

Tony S
M400S #581




--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, tronbros@... wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the input.
>  
> We weren't actually planning to to retune the entire catalogue as an  
> exercise.  We wanted the die hard fans to say what they thought
about the  very idea 
> as there are some extremely emotive people out there when it  comes
to messing 
> with originality.  The notion of doing anything to sacred  mellotron
sounds 
> would horrify some.  Suprisingly you have all hailed the  idea!  Not
what we 
> expected at all but actually quite a revelation and a  good one at that.
>  
> So, as a final comment on all this, which sounds do you own which
you feel  
> would benefit from a good old tweaking?  
>  
> Thanks for the response, it's what this list is all about.
>  
> Best,
>  
> Martin
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