Mellotron tape change

Melotron can change a sound more if you change a tape rack.

This video explains a way of the exchange of the tape rack.

1 : Take off a lid.

2 : Take off a keyboard. The keyboard is fixed with four screws.

3 : Take off a metal plate for tape guides.

4 : Take off tape. The tape is fixed with four screws, too.

5 : Lift a tape rack and take it off.

6 : Put the another tape rack (A chorus, an oboe, the sound of the vibraphone are recorded with this case).

7 : Install each part in a reverse procedure.

Will it be easy than you load a sound in memory?

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[beefajerky]

@ansiaaa666 but he has upside down playing skills.

[rattu123]

A nightmare to patch changing! LOL!

[willibehistory]

Having had both the mellotron similar to Tony Bank's, and a band called Spring,and RJ Jone's studios in Chiswick AND the smaller Mellotron 400, made under license by 2 seperate companies, Bradmatic and the Mellotron 400 made by Novatronics. All are Mellotrons, because of the mechanism by which pre-recorded tapes for each note are drawn over playback heads. They are all notoriously unreliable because they are mechanical, and suffer from oxidisation of the playback heads, giving the SCATCHY sound.

[yuase1112]

めんどくせー

[Callofduty4nub]

@Penmani if its not a mellotron then what kind of keyboard is it then?

[blueluny]

Meh. Not as a good as a Muppaphone :)

[Mogpiano1]

I owned a Mellotron M400 for a while in a multi keyboard set up in the early 70s. Great sounds but so unreliable. I ended up playing most of the mellotron parts on my Hammond at most gigs because of some fault or other. Ok in the studio maybe but a nightmare on the road.

[alecjahn]

That must be terrifying to do. I wouldn't want to even look at the inside of one of those things without gloves on!

[Xstractor]

@Penmani This is Mellotron M400. There is Novatrons with dual keyboards too, only difference is the nameplate.

[ezbwoy]

@Penmani true

[Penmani]

I hate to disappoint you, but this is NOT a Mellotron. I used to own the ex-Genesis Mellotron, which I bought from a band called "England" (who got it from Tony Banks). I refurbished it at my school's wood- workshops in the late 70's, but sadly, it dissappeared from our recording studio in London Bridge at the end of the 80's. The machine in this clip is a (much smaller) Novatron. You can always tell the Mellotron as it has 2 SEPARATE keyboards. Posted by Ian Penman.

[Xend54]

Kontakt's Grandfather.