The Mellotron Group

Hello Mark


It's all down to pre and line amp types, heads types and azimuth alignment, which tape work masters were used for copying, i.e. London tapes sounded very different from Streetly tapes or Sound Sales tapes. A lot of variables.


My best


Martin 





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From: markpringnz@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Not the M300a violins again!



  
    
                  

Sorry to air my obsession with this tapeset again, I was watching this video of Hessel's:


Mellotron M300 demonstration

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
    
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
    Mellotron M300 demonstration   
Here's a little demo of my Mellotron M300, which is up for auction on eBay (item # 281566538559 ).
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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There does seem to be something different about the sound of an M300 as opposed to an M400 playing the same tape set, but I can't put my finger on what it is although that has always bee n the mellotron sound I wanted. Unfortunately the sound of my M400 has always been a disappointment I suppose there is quite a big difference between a Mark II an M400 and a Chamberlin playing the 3 violins.


This link is to a little demo on my Soundcloud channel comparing the sound of my M400, the Streetly samples of the M300a from M-tron Pro and the M300a samples in Redtron SE. I am not going to buy an M300!


Mark


PS If anyone knows why the M300 sounds different I would really like to know.