The official sound of prog, made in Birmingham. As with a tape recorder, any sounds could be pre-recorded onto the Mellotron’s tapes and ‘played’, but it was the factory-loaded ‘orchestral ...

Today, we’re honoring one of the great, pre-digital age instruments with the Top 10 Mellotron Songs. In an era in which you can recreate almost any sound on a laptop or smart phone, the ...

Now, the Mellotron is desired because it sounds like a Mellotron. There's no mistaking it today for a real orchestra, but the quirky, low-fi sound is part of its appeal. What's fascinating about the ...

Under the direction of Markus Resch, Sweden’s Mellotron company still produces tape-based instruments (the Mk. VI and Mk. VII) and brought the ’Tron into the digital era with the M4000D. That ...

Today we are exploring Apple’s Vintage Mellotron sampler instrument from Logic Pro X. With so many brilliant third-party instruments and sound libraries out there, it can be easy to forget about ...

We've never had an original Mellotron at the Tiny Desk until now. Much like a Hammond organ, it's big, heavy and fragile. When they fired it up, with all its mechanical gears turning tape loops ...

Listen to this amazing EFX Effectology demo and tell me it’s not amazing. Essentially the guitarist, Bill Ruppert, is recreating the classic proto-sampler sound of the Mellotron with a few ...

Ironically, the Mellotron's usefulness ended right around the time Pinder left the Moody Blues. The group reconvened in 1978 for "Octave" after a four-year break.

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