New Electro-Harmonix Sounds-The Mellotron

[baranger1]

Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.6 "Mellotron Sounds"

I have been in love with the sound of the vintage Mellotron keyboard from the first day I heard one.
I have tried very hard to capture just a tiny bit of its magic using my guitar and effect pedals.
Below are a few sounds that remind me a lot of this great instrument using just my guitar, the POG2 and other EHX effect pedals.

If you do not own the pedals I used, please experiment with similar pedals you have in your collection.

The video is here:
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The" How To" forum page with pedal settings is here:
http://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/1695/


Thanks for listening.
Bill Ruppert

[aliensporebomb]

Bill, that's terrific!

I was working with my VG99 trying to get a fake Mellotron type sound and
worked and worked and got some pretty evocative sounds.

Here's my fake vg99 mellotron:
http://pod.ath.cx/vg99/drones/FakeTron.mp3

Enjoy!

[germanicus2112]

A great solution for mellotron sounds is gmedia's M-Tron and M-tron pro. Both contain libraries of many original tapes collected from various sources. Very cool and inexpensive solution and its not an emulation, its the actual source sounds.

[baranger1]

ASB, sounds great. You got it.

Thanks for the tip germanicus2112.
I know how you feel about it.
I personally do not trigger.

The point of this exercise was to show sounds reminiscent of the Mellotron could be produced with a regular guitar, a regular pickup and a plain old 1/4 cable.

It is my hope to get the "regular" guitar player excited about the possibilities with in his or her's instrument with out having to triggering a sound source produced by someone else.

This quest leads to experimentation which could opens new doors that may have never been opened.

Thanks again.
Bill Ruppert

[Davo17]

That sounds great, came out well!

[Godsky]

Impressive stuff!! :thu:
Think it's time for me to mess around with the gear i got!

[aliensporebomb]

The nice thing about doing this with standard effects pedals is that you then don't have to subject a computer to the environment of a gig - hot stage lights, contaminants in the environment, potential for damage.

Next up, my ocean liner sound!

[scucigmus]

Such a very amazing link!