The Mellotron was not just an electronic organ like the Wurlitzer. It had tape loops for each sound, so you could play what sort of sounded like a violin or trumpet.
Hubbard later got a Fairlight, which did the same thing with crude digital recordings. You can hear it on his famous song "Windsplitter".
The Mellotron was not just an electronic organ like the Wurlitzer. It had tape loops for each sound, so you could play what sort of sounded like a violin or trumpet.
Hubbard later got a Fairlight, which did the same thing with crude digital recordings. You can hear it on his famous song "Windsplitter".
He also had a beautiful old Hammond B3 with a Leslie cabinet (rotating speaker to make a haunting vibrato sound). This was completely electric except the tubed amplifiers, using rotating disks to make the sounds. Rockers like the Doors loved the B3 because the sound had a little percussive bite to it as the keys made contact.
There is a famous picture of Hubbard playing the Wurlitzer with one hand and the Mellotron with the other. Sadly, no recordings were made for us to mock.
Old Hammond organs are coveted instruments. We had one in my group PEOPLE!. In the rock era 1966. what we had before our Hammond was the VOX keyboard that was a portable version of a Hammond. We ran it through a Leslie which is a big wooden box with a bass speaker and a high frequency horns that rotate.
We had one in the Music Studio at the Int Base. Just a glorious sound with the Leslie but every time they wanted to use it we had to replace tubes, capacitors or clean the contacts on the sound matrix assembly.
The music studio also had two of those old plate reverbs, like the ones at Chick Corea's Mad Hatter. Tubes! You could adjust them every which way but who knows the best way.
They also have two echo chambers, one with a rotating microphone. Amazing how they can create such lifeless music with such great tools. Scientology sucks the life out of everything it touches.
Not in recording these days, I'm working in manufacturing.
The front-of-house engineer we worked with on events was also named Geoff. Can't remember his last name. Used to tour with the "Wall" tour. He told me he had an office in the UK while he was working with the Who and one day they looked in the attic above - there was an old Mellotron! He refused to go to the Freewinds unless I was there to keep everything together. Wonder what he did after I escaped. He has a really well set-up business in Simi Valley, probably doesn't need the grief of a crowded "cruise ship" with a bunch of prima donnas.
He could tell some stories though, like the Tom Cruise Birthday Party.
Don't know if I will ever come out publicly, I am still working (at 72). Hard to explain to a new customer that his assigned engineer is someone who has dramatically violated a non-disclosure agreement with a former employer!
The Mellotron was not just an electronic organ like the Wurlitzer. It had tape loops for each sound, so you could play what sort of sounded like a violin or trumpet.
Hubbard later got a Fairlight, which did the same thing with crude digital recordings. You can hear it on his famous song "Windsplitter".
He also had a beautiful old Hammond B3 with a Leslie cabinet (rotating speaker to make a haunting vibrato sound). This was completely electric except the tubed amplifiers, using rotating disks to make the sounds. Rockers like the Doors loved the B3 because the sound had a little percussive bite to it as the keys made contact.
There is a famous picture of Hubbard playing the Wurlitzer with one hand and the Mellotron with the other. Sadly, no recordings were made for us to mock.
Old Hammond organs are coveted instruments. We had one in my group PEOPLE!. In the rock era 1966. what we had before our Hammond was the VOX keyboard that was a portable version of a Hammond. We ran it through a Leslie which is a big wooden box with a bass speaker and a high frequency horns that rotate.
We had one in the Music Studio at the Int Base. Just a glorious sound with the Leslie but every time they wanted to use it we had to replace tubes, capacitors or clean the contacts on the sound matrix assembly.
The music studio also had two of those old plate reverbs, like the ones at Chick Corea's Mad Hatter. Tubes! You could adjust them every which way but who knows the best way.
They also have two echo chambers, one with a rotating microphone. Amazing how they can create such lifeless music with such great tools. Scientology sucks the life out of everything it touches.
Techie, are you currently recording? We should compare notes. Only a few of us engineer nerds.
Not in recording these days, I'm working in manufacturing.
The front-of-house engineer we worked with on events was also named Geoff. Can't remember his last name. Used to tour with the "Wall" tour. He told me he had an office in the UK while he was working with the Who and one day they looked in the attic above - there was an old Mellotron! He refused to go to the Freewinds unless I was there to keep everything together. Wonder what he did after I escaped. He has a really well set-up business in Simi Valley, probably doesn't need the grief of a crowded "cruise ship" with a bunch of prima donnas.
He could tell some stories though, like the Tom Cruise Birthday Party.
Don't know if I will ever come out publicly, I am still working (at 72). Hard to explain to a new customer that his assigned engineer is someone who has dramatically violated a non-disclosure agreement with a former employer!