The Mellotron Group

I have both on my M400. I like both for different reasons. The M400 violins are smoother throughout the range and have a sweeter sound. The MkII violins have more harmonics.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Robert <rmrmax@...> wrote:
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> For somebody like me who has never seen / heard "up close in person", a real Mellotron, Memotron, or the new Digital Mellotron, I really have no opinion (nor should I) on this topic.  But I would love to see and hear all 3 together side by side and play them, or better yet, seeing / hearing somebody them who really has some talent.  Realistically speaking, this will never happen.
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> This is the only example of EQing that I noticed on Streetly's site:
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> M400 Violins
> Not so huge as the last one. Actually it's just like the Mk II Violins sound,
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> piano strings. In an attempt to sweeten the sound of the Mk II strings 
> for use with the M400, the sound was entirely remixed to roll off the 
> high end EQ and iron out some of the more raucous notes.
> A much smoother (and, some say, less characteristic) sound than the classic string sound, it can be found on several mid-period Genesis compositions.
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> Is it inappropriate to put the MKII Violins tape on an M400 tape frame ?  I would imagine the answer is "no".
> Which of these 2 violin tapes do you guys prefer ?
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> Thanks for responding...
> Robert
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> --- On Mon, 7/18/11, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
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> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Subject= Re: M4000D nice review with photos
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 1:13 PM
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>               Mike, examples of where the Streetly tape library mentions
>               explicit improvements to the original sounds... (not that
>               I'm saying these don't sound like improvements - but if
>               purists are going to carp about any remastering of the
>               M4000D sounds...)
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>     Woah, Hang on there. The first two refer to earlier generation
>     copies being found - not some weird re-hacking of the sounds to make
>     them sound 'better'. They have better fidelity but are in
>     themselves untouched.  That's totally different to the
>     'improvements' we were speaking about.
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