The Mellotron Group

Gary,
 
We all love "the old days stories."
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 6/24/2010 12:11:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gabru@comsec.net writes:

 
 
 
 
Tony, 
The Rev.1 is  the best sounding you will ever hear.  The problem was it was 
very  unreliable.  I had a friend from high school, Riley Smith, who worked 
  
at Sequential  in San Jose and later went to Emu in Santa Cruz.  I was able 
to get  factory trained at both places.  He got me the Rev.1 and later a 
Prophet  10  
direct from  the factory.  The Rev. 1 had been returned to the factory due 
to  reliability issues and they sold it to me for $500. I also had a couple 
of  Rev. 3s and  
< span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">T8 but  none compared to the 
Rev.1.  It sounded fat like a bunch of Mini  Moogs.  They switched to a 
more dependable  IC for their VCO, VCA,  VCF, etc. and 





redesigned  the main board after the Rev. 1 after which it became very 
dependable but lost  some of it’s “balls” in the process.  I got training at 
the Emu factory   
which was in  a Victorian house in Santa Cruz during the Emulator days.  It 
was a fun  place and they knew how to throw a party J.  A few years ago I 
bought a   
couple of Emu  Vintage Keys modules and no ticed that my friend Riley had 
written the  manual.  I also worked with  Music Technology during the 
development   
of the  Synergy and I owned a couple of those….but that’s another story…
..Those were  fun days…at least I think they were from what I remember.    
Man, there  are some good drinking stories in there somewhere J.  I may 
know where a P10 is in  NC but this guy almost never cuts loose of any gear.  
He just stores   
things  forever.  It was likely only played a few times.  If I catch him in 
 the right mood (not an easy thing to do) maybe I can g et him to part with 
 it.  As I recall there  
were only  about 600 or so P10s made.  I bought a Neve  console from him 
several years ago and when I cracked the LARGE anvil case the  leather was 
like new on  
the arm rest  and it looked perfect.  He had only used it for a couple of 
years and  then stored it.  Anyhow…didn’t mean to get started in the old 
days  stories….. :) . 
Cheers, 
Gary 
 
 
 
From: newmellotrongroup@ newmellotro newmellotrongroup@<WBR>yah 
newmellotrongro newmellOn Behalf Of  tony1
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:18 PM
To:  newmellotrongroup@  newmell  
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: Astra plays the Novatron

 
 
 
 
I am impressed as I was the  factory service tech for Hillsborough and 
Pinellas counties (Tampa/St Pete),  for Sequential and most others when the 
Prophet 5 and 10s came out. And I' m  looking for one of either right now.
 

 
Tony
 


 
----- Original Message  ----- 
 
From: _Gary Brumm_ (mailto:gabru@comsec.net)   
 
To: _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   
 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:04  PM
 
Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Astra plays the  Novatron
 

 
 
My first  Prophet 5 came from Eddie Jobson.  It was a Rev. 1 & Black.    
If this was  the Sequential Circuits forum I bet somebody would be 
impressed … or at  least give a $hit J 
 
 
 
From:<  /span> _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   [mailto:newmellotro  [mailto:n  [On Behalf Of  gino wong
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 4:18 PM
To:  _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Astra plays the  Novatron

 
 
 
Astra was good. They were well received 
 
Eddie Jobson's mellotron shaped keyboard stand was a  piss.
 
 
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:36 PM, <_lsf5275@aol.lsf_ 
(mailto:lsf5275@aol.com) > wrote: 
 
 
 
 
 
Yes, but only a bit. My camera crapped  out on me. I'll post it on my 
myspace page and perhaps You tube as  well.
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/23/2010 4:14:11  P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_got_a_guitar@got_a_gui_ (mailto:got_a_guitar@yahoo.com)   writes:


 
 
Astra rules! Is there any footage of  them using the Novatron?
 
--- In _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
(mailto:newmell%20%20otrongroup@yahoogroups.com) , lsf5275@...  wrote:
>
> Flute, Strings, Choir
> 
> 
> In  a message dated 6/23/2010 3:13:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>  pocotron@... writes:
> 
> Nice, Frank!
> Notice how  neatly the Memotron sits on top of the Novatron.
> What voices were  on the  frame?
>