no it's not the motors that is responsible for the thing you mention as lag . but the controler board ( CMC10) . the motors is not weak at all but the board is not very efficient . this board adjut the speed of tape according the pressure on the capstan which is higher when many keys are pressed . j...

"Dr Avalanche"

he's the drummer of the early sisters of mercy isn't it ? his first name is roland if I remember well ?

hum ..

sorry but everybody knows that the greatest drummer in the world is Christian Vander

"I disagree that tape lag doesn't show up on samples"

what is this shit ??
I got a M400 and there is no lag at all ! a mellotron well serviced rocks

records = not crap
live performance = total crap

the singer is the most boring singer I've ever seen ! his vocal performance on record are far far better

do you play drum with you guitar plectrum ? if not = CRAP

it's a M400 mellotron ( 35 keys keyboard ) . MKI,MKII,M300 =2 keyboards

no phase problem if the mike is directly on the surface . even it's the only case where you are sure there is no phase problem .
i like to put omni mike directly on the floor or on wall ; very nice to get the room sound in a small room where phase is tricky .

sorry but it seems you never listen to shub niggurath . nothing to do with yes nor UK ( or maybe played backward ?? ) . so with that you lost credibility about what you said on frenchies among other things ..

good luck

frankly I don't know what to think about that .

sure there is steak ! but cheese ? this is not !!
it's at philly the first time I saw cheese which was applied on bread with a brush ! a really paint brush ! it scared me .
i'm french you know ..