The Mellotron Group

Hey mark,
I don't know how many but certainly the first few M300's did have
pitch controls in the centre of the panel. Mine which is no.005 has
one originally with a CMC4 controller which wasn't bad. Not as bad as
the later CMC10's which were really bad. The SFX consoles had the same
set up I think. I replaced my CMC4 with an SMS2 which is now rock
solid and in tune in a minute or so.
Later M300's had fixed speed ac motors so no CMC4 or pitch control
(which was replaced with a tone control). I can do the "Legend.."
pitch sweeps no problem on the M300.
John


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pring <markpringnz@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Rick,
> I think that M300's don't have pitch controls, but I
> am pretty sure I have heard notes and chords being
> bent by them, how is it done? 
> 
> Can you really alter pitch by as much as an octave on
> a Mark II?
> 
> Mark
> --- Rick Blechta <rick@...> wrote:
> 
> > One thing that should be mentioned to those who have
> > never played a  
> > MkII is that the pitch range is a great deal bigger
> > than what is  
> > available on an M400 and all later mellotrons. So
> > Pinder was unlikely  
> > to have needed to do anything other than turn his
> > pitch control way  
> > down to drop an octave. (Not having my MkII here in
> > front of me, I  
> > can't tell you exactly what the range is; anyone
> > else care to step in?)
> > 
> > Another notable low-pitch mellotron part in "Devil's
> > Triangle" by King  
> > Crimson, might be slowed down, but possible not.
> > 
> > I wonder why the pitch sweep was smaller on later
> > mellotrons. David  
> > and Markus's half-speed switch is a good effort to
> > correct this, but  
> > I've always wondered why that feature was changed.
> > It's great for all  
> > sorts of things in the studio -- or for vocalists
> > who can't cut parts  
> > in the original key. You get to watch the guitarists
> > suffer through  
> > trying to transpose while you just twiddle a knob
> > and are ready to  
> > go. ;)
> > 
> > Rick
> 
> 
> 
>      
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