The Mellotron Group

It seems strange that he's obsessed with getting the M400 Violin sound when Seven Stones and Starless were recorded with a MK-II.  They used a MK-II on Red did they not?

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "John Wright" <john.wright@...> wrote:
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> I've seen this person's work on You tube and he does some very nice
> covers IMHO, particularly his cover of Starless.
>  
> John
> #911
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] MK-II Violins vs M400 Violins
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> Here's a guy (Ryder Duncan AKA Squonk06) obsessed with making M-Tron
> digital samples of MK-II Violins sound like M400 Violins. He describes a
> complex three layer, four band, two self parametric EQ process. This
> processing might actually work. It sounds like it does. Kinda hard to
> believe that Les Bradley dicked around with EQ to this extent back in
> 1970. 
> 
> http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-7
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> Here he is playing M-Tron "violins - 1" (MkII violins) 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDijelNipw&feature=related
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> This guy has tron-OCD and clearly needs a real M400. :-)
>