The range is slightly more than a half tone in each direction, which is definitely much smaller than the real thing and which makes doing an "authentic" rendition of the intro impossible.
Love the Genesis Mellotron! Suppers ready is one of my favorite compositions. Too bad Banks has no interest in that kind if sound anymore, he was my favorite back then and now seems to only do cheezy Pop music.
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i like it, but is there a way for the m-tron to change the attack to be more gradual like on the beatles recording, or would you have to do that on the eq? could the original mellotrons even do that, or was that some sort of production thing?
I've heard this before, actually, and upon testing it out (a while after I made this video), I found that the tone was even more accurate than with the knob dead center.
i'd like to know what kind of midi keyboard you're using... how many keys??
tseekr379 1 year ago
Almost everyone raves about the accuracy of the sound, but it's not quite the same.
However, unless you are rich and very strong, the M-Tron is a lot better than no Mellotron at all.
alanpitfall 1 year ago
Don' like the sound. Not even close. Sounds too plastic.
Great playing though ;)
effeniet 1 year ago
You forgot the end of the strawberry intro..
Has it got a very large pitch control like the real one??
or it's got a pitch of a half tone like the most one..
San5a 2 years ago
The range is slightly more than a half tone in each direction, which is definitely much smaller than the real thing and which makes doing an "authentic" rendition of the intro impossible.
Squonk06 2 years ago
oh it's a shame..what the fuck were they thinking about?!...the only good thing of the mellotron is the great pitch adjustment..!!
San5a 2 years ago
Oh wonderful - I think this patch is worth the ticket price alone
I hope to date, taint and overuse them myself very soon ;)
weaponEX 2 years ago
Love the Genesis Mellotron! Suppers ready is one of my favorite compositions. Too bad Banks has no interest in that kind if sound anymore, he was my favorite back then and now seems to only do cheezy Pop music.
module19 3 years ago
My band Ivory Forest needs a Keyboardist. I have been doing it all on my own so far guitars and keyboards, and I like your style. Check us out on myspace. Look up Ivory Forest, you wont miss us on the list....
SephynnXx 3 years ago
i like it, but is there a way for the m-tron to change the attack to be more gradual like on the beatles recording, or would you have to do that on the eq? could the original mellotrons even do that, or was that some sort of production thing?
augustusscriabin 3 years ago
GREAT PLAYING... INSPIRING.
URUGUAYODELORTO 3 years ago
That sounded pretty damn good
razzmatazzrazz 3 years ago
The Beatles apparently turned the Pitch Knob all the way down on SFF.
Mellotronaic 3 years ago
I've heard this before, actually, and upon testing it out (a while after I made this video), I found that the tone was even more accurate than with the knob dead center.
Squonk06 3 years ago
Great video!
A nice example of this sound is the real flute x mellotron portion of genesis' get em out by friday...
Took me 3 weeks to figure out what what the tron and what was Gabriel. But man, it's was worth it!
KeysBR 3 years ago