ok... wtf is a Mellotron

[BiatchGuy]

I know what it looks like but what's it sound like? It's supposedly all over the new album.. is the Mellotron what's making the sounds that sound like a string section?

oh, and while we're at it, what's a Fender Rhoades... another type of piano or something *shrug*




btw, Damnation rocks

 

[jeanreno]

So just what is a mellotron? Simply described, it's a tape replay organ. Each key has a strip of magnetic tape under it on which is recorded that corresponding note on whatever instrument you can imagine (and some you can't). When the key is depressed, the tape plays back. So if the tape has, say, a recording of a flute playing, that's what comes out of the speaker (Think about the opening to "Strawberry Fields". That's Paul playing a mellotron.) Pretty neat, huh?


Taken from http://www.rickblechta.com/Pages/Mellotron.html

 

[The Master]

http://www.till.com/articles/Mellotron/

 

[BiatchGuy]

..so it's like a '70s version of a synth or something?

 

[The Master]

..so it's like a '70s version of a synth or something?

Its a pre-digital synth, basically.

 

[jeanreno]

Basically.

 

[Protected Witness]

Its a pre-digital synth, basically.

I thought your avatar was Frederik from Meshuggah but I then realized it's Terry Gilliam. They look the same...

 

[jeanreno]

It is called Mario Twins, they look the same!

Wild!

 

[Kushantaiidan]

It is called Mario Twins, they look the same!

Wild!

I want to play! SHIGGITY SHIGGITY SHWAH!

 

[jeanreno]

I want to play! SHIGGITY SHIGGITY SHWAH!

I love you.

 

[Powerslave]

You want me to do things to you like the sun and the moon... IDIOT, I don't have time! I have too many women!

 

[jeanreno]

All I want is bang bang bang!

 

[Demonspell]

www.mellotron.com - contains an extensive list of recordings containing the choice keyboard of first generation proggers...

 

[NAD]

They're so god damn the same person...

Mellotrons kick ass, listen to old King Crimson.

 

[plattopus]

John Paul Jones used to use a Melly in Led Zeppelin too... they're really cool.

 

[Mayh]

I love the Mellotron in Last Fair Deal Gone Down but I don´t really know if it´s the real deal... anyone got a clue?

 

[The Master]

I thought your avatar was Frederik from Meshuggah but I then realized it's Terry Gilliam. They look the same...