The Mellotron Group

It looks and sounds like an amazing piece of shit, doesn't it? I can't  
imagine Pat Moraz could have ever been remotely thrilled with it, even though 
he  had a really jazzy one. The more I see and hear them the less I want one. 
In  fact, I sooo don't want one at this point, I really want Nancy Pelosi 
to have  one. And I want it to sound just like Pea Hicks'.
 
 
In a message dated 2/1/2011 6:19:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
charel196@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
In the Pea Hicks video when he's demo'ing the Orchestron, the violins disc  
sounds a lot like they sampled Mellotron violins too me. I thought I read 
long  ago that Vako used a Mellotron to make some of the discs.

--- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ,  Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@...> wrote:
>
> Orchestrons can  made to sound really good (different than a Mellotron) by
> using what  you describe below.
> 
> Vako never had the budget for the laser  reader and it was nothing bnut
> marketing. I have stickers on my that  say it's read by lasers but it's
> nonsense.
> 
> There were  suppsedly some glass test discs made but those broke easy and
> they  stuck to the Optigan format.
> All of the discs stacked in one system  would have been a good idea too!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Charles <charel196@...> wrote:
>  
> >
> >
> > After watching several Youtube videos  of Orchestron playing (like Pea
> > Hicks' recent posting) I am  amazed no one ever seems to use a volume 
pedal
> > on the thing and a  good long delay/reverb to get more realistic swells 
& cut
> >  offs & smoothing over the loop glitches. I think those things might  
sound
> > good if properly played with a pedal & run thru some  noise filtering.
> > I wonder if Vako had had the budget to use  higher quality technology 
(like
> > a laser for reading the discs,  better motors and audio circuitry, and
> > thicker and more rigid  records instead of the flimsy Optigan discs) 
what the
> > result  might have been? An Orchestron could have been built with all 
the
> >  sound/optical records placed stacked in a seperate cabinet never 
having  to
> > be touched and accessed remotely by a master control  keyboard.
> >
> > 
> >
>