@@denizbluemusic oh yeah it pretty well is, I just know he has other gear so I am thinking of a full cover using the mellotron and another one of his many other cool synths for the other parts might be neat
@@googleuser3163 How is it cringe to speak differently? You wouldn't criticize something from new york for saying boigah instead of burger. Dialects and accents exist.
I remember Paul McCartney playing the intro to “SFF” on the same mellotron used during the original recording, in one part of The Beatles Anthology, and it sent shivers down my spine.
Ya when I’ve seen this thing on videos before I didn’t really understand how the tape worked with all the keys now I see it every key has its own tape that’s so awesome…✌🏼✌🏼
Very nicely done. The warmth and tone of the vintage Mellotron are unparalleled. The electronic stuff is lifeless comparatively. Would love to see this come back!
@@horowizard I agree with you that the Nord Sample Library are phenomenally faithful recreations of the vintage Mellotron sounds made from the original masters. However, it's this ongoing analog vs. digital argument, whether real or imaged, where there's a difference and more often than not that "unquantifiable" difference that is somehow lost in digital processing, no matter how high the sample rate. Even at extremely high sample rates, say north of 32-bit at 48KHz, digital is still discrete quantities vs analog's continuous information over time. Staying with The Beatles, for example, I think a good many people, if given a choice, would rather listen to the original recording of "Straweberry Fields Forever" on the Studer J37 master tape rather than the best-possible digital remastering of said tape. Now, to be sure, you'd have to be a true audiophile to detect any difference, but still, I think some of the "magic" is still held on those analog tapes, or perhaps I'm delusional! lol
@@TotinosOtherBoy Mmmm, not sure I agree with you, as it is more a function of analog vs digital as opposed to a "utilization" thing. But, I do agree that with high enough sample rates those differences are becoming increasingly negligible.
@@chadnetwig6911 Considering how those early Mellotron recordings have such band-limited fidelity, the only thing you're really gaining with an analog recording is more noise and distortion. Don't get me wrong, I love analog tape and vinyl but look at the percentage of people who are actually doing it anymore. Since 2002 I did a lot of experimenting with High Definition Digital recording. My preference is nothing below 96k sampling rate. I don't think I could tell the difference between a real Mellotron and the Nord unless I was in the room and could hear the mechanical noises, and I consider myself to have an acutely discriminating ear.
Fascinating to see the actual inner mechanism at work. It's a minor miracle that bands could actually take one out on the road and play it. The folks at Streely must have thought people were insane when they actually gigged with the early models. Even the M400, which was designed for gigging, was a finnicky beast that often caused trouble onstage.
I want a Mellotron so bad! Or even to just have the opportunity to play one! They have such a haunting quality to them, their "short coming" (using reel tape samples) is magic. I need to pickup that Mellotron pedal for guitar.
Definitely look into digital versions; I use Arturia's Mellotron V and it sounds amazing. I also still really want to play a real one someday, though, so I feel you on that.
Thats the one Big Star used! Although i believe the one Ardent had (or at least the one that appears in recent photos from studio tours) was manufactured after the Beatles broke up.
One of my absolute favourite Beatles songs of all time. Just purely beautiful. And your cover is equally beautiful, I mean it’s in an ORIGINAL MELLOTRON!
Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues introduced the Mellotron to John. Mike took out all of the sound effects that were on the factory model of the Mellotron and doubled the string tape strips to get that Moody sound.
Thank you, sir, for the finest demonstration of the melotron , l never ever knew anything about it until l stumbled at an npr special about the melotron and l heard this song when my older brother and sister played the Beatles of the 8track and now it brought me tears of joy 😢
I use to sell these keyboards in the 70s when I worked for Dallas Arbiter from Great Britan as a sales rep in the southren states, It was a very interesting Time in my life for sure.
@@marcohoogland-iconicvintag6455/ Sorry to say I do not I had one for a while Then I went into the music business, and I traded it for some other music gear.
Dude sounds orgasmic, u know in one take I think in the unspliced ending to take 7 (i believe it was) there’s a little mellotron jam in the end. Would love to hear you have a go at that
All the digital mellotron’s I’ve seen/used (which to be fair is relatively small) pale in comparison to the actual instrument. Though some bands have version that seem virtually the same like Claypool Lennon Delirium or King Crimson.
The key was that it was imperfect. There wasn't a perfect key because of the technology of the mellotron, so there was a lot of work by their sound engeneer.
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Reading the discription of the instrument, I couldn't understand how it worked. This video helped me figure it out. We can see the magnetic bands getting back in position when you release the key.
You should 100% make a tutorial for how to play the song I haven't seen anyone play it as exactly as you, and I can't find any good tutorials on RU-vid because they're all a bit off
Its literally a series of tapes, when the key is released the tape rewinds! If you hold down the key too long the tape runs out and the sound simply stops
Because they were sampled recordings of actual instruments/choirs/etc playing each note. There was no natural way to "loop" that sound, and furthermore, the 'attack' at the beginning of each note is a big part of what makes the Mellotron sound so distinctive. If the note just started anywhere on a tape loop, you would lose that unique attack.
There was an instrument called the Birotron (funded by Rick Wakeman, I think) which tried using the technology of 8 track cartridges for actual loops, but it went nowhere@@ladronsiman1471
