NEUTRAL EARTH - Equipment We Use - Inside A Vintage Mellotron - How It Works.

Some of our viewers may not know what a 1972 Mellotron M400 is, so we made a video that explains what it is, and demonstrate how it works!

I should have mentioned, although I demonstrate (from 1:29 to 1:40), is the note/tape plays only a maximum of approximately 8 seconds.
Also, tape frames, with different sounds could be custom ordered, and the tape frames could be changed in 2 or 3 minutes or less. There are several YouTube videos showing how to change tape frames, or cartridges as some call them.
And, you could blend, or mix two adjacent sounds by moving the track selector (sound changing) knob between A and B, or B and C.

If you have any questions, please ask them in the comment section. I'll try to answer them as quickly and to the best of my ability.

Interesting Mellotron facts.
There are now two companies making Mellotrons!
The original Streetly Electronics started making Mellotrons in 1963.
Streetly went into liquidation in 1986 and in 1989 the bankrupt estate of Mellotron in the US and the remains of all the associated UK companies were acquired by David Kean. He resurrected the Mellotron brand and provided needed parts and tapes to Mellotron enthusiasts. Markus Resch became a partner in this venture, eventually producing the Mark VI Mellotron, a new and improved tape-replay instrument in 1999.
Markus still runs Mellotron.com. The company now based in Sweden concentrates on and sells beautiful digital Mellotrons.
https://www.digitalmellotron.com

Streetly Electronics reformed and after doing Mellotron repairs, restorations and service for a while have designed and built a completely new analog tape playing Mellotron, the incredible M4000.
https://www.mellotronics.com//index.htm

EXCELLENT READING...
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and fascinating video... (If you can find it)
MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Movie DVD, by Dianna Dilworth.

MELLOTRON HISTORY...
https://www.mellotron.com/history.htm

Andy Thompson's "Planet Mellotron" website has an insanely comprehensive list of every album that contains Mellotron! (Yes, Neutral Earth is in there!)
It is a MUST for Mellotron lovers.
https://www.planetmellotron.com

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