The Mellotron Group

Dan Britton did. In the videos on you tube of him playing the M4000, what  
you here is exactly what went into the mix. Same thing with Tom Brislin. 
When he  was here recording we recorded 19 M400 Mellotron tracks as I recall. 
All were  recorded dry and reverb was added to some tracks later, but other 
than that, no  tampering.
 
 
In a message dated 7/13/2011 3:58:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
On 13/07/2011 19:00, Tony wrote:  
 
Another reason a real Mellotron is  better than the digital gadget, in my  
opinion.


I have said this before and will say  it again. It is not the 'digital' 
business that makes it good or bad - after  all, that is just a recording 
mechanism like tape - a means to an end.   However, it's the tampering that 
people feel compelled to do with the  digital recordings that bothers me. 
Interpolating. Noise reduction. Tuning.  EQing. Normalising. 

So far I have found no one anywhere who has  just recorded the instrument 
'as is' and left it like that, warts and all.  'Honesty' aside, it would just 
sound better.

Mike