The Mellotron Group

On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Mike Dickson wrote:

> Mine is the same.I distinctly recall that when I was recording  
> 'Water Through Fingers' on the fiorst Systems Theory album it was  
> worse than ever. The coda to that track features over a dozen  
> Mellotron sounds, and recording one was not a problem, but the next  
> was in variably out of tune to the tune of (say) a quarter tone  
> flat. If I turned the pitch up by a hint of smattering of a  
> suggestion then it was playing a semitone sharp. Back down the same  
> amount and it was still sharp. A tad further down and it was back  
> where it started.
>
> I gave up for the day and did it all again the next day. I recorded  
> all tracks, one after another, with no pitch problems at all

As they often say as the World Series rolls around, "You can never  
have enough good pitching."