Mellotron
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Search complete. 101 mentions across 39 episodes found for "Mellotron".
Sep 11, 2026
John LeckieGUEST
And I got to work with Gregsy, with Dave Gregory, who was great, who I hadn't worked with, you see.
John LeckieGUEST
And he, of course, knew everything about insides of Mellotrons and that kind of stuff and what guitars were used.
John LeckieGUEST
And they'd come up with all those.
John LeckieGUEST
The Hollies, Vanishing Girl, you know, Hollies, Rick and Becker, kind of out of phase.
Nick ThomasGUEST
Well, lots of cool things happening here in verse one that I wanna, I wanna talk to you about.
Nick ThomasGUEST
Uh, that guitar carries over from the intro, and it's joined here with, what is this panned off left? Is it a Mellotron, electric piano? Yeah, he's a looker, but I really think it's guts that matter most.
Nick ThomasGUEST
I displayed them- Yes.
Nick ThomasGUEST
So with the, uh, staccato notes there, that would be, I wanna say that's a, it's a piano of some kind.
Nick ThomasGUEST
This is just the very top where it's the guitar- Oh, oh ... and, and, and it almost sounds like, uh- It is ...
Nick ThomasGUEST
Yes, sorry, yes.
Nick ThomasGUEST
Mellotron and f- there's a flute.
Nick ThomasGUEST
I don't wanna- Yeah, [laughs] okay.
Yael MidnightHOST
There is a lot of Mellotron.
Yael MidnightHOST
Yeah.
Noelle MidnightHOST
Oh, that's probably Melatron.
Noelle MidnightHOST
I'm pretty sure that's Melatron.
Noelle MidnightHOST
Yeah.
Noelle MidnightHOST
I'm sorry, Melatrons aren't synths.
Noelle MidnightHOST
I know this.
Noelle MidnightHOST
I will do better.
RobGUEST
So there's not loads of stuff on a backing track.
RobGUEST
We wouldn't ever have vocals or anything on there, but those Mellotron parts and these other things.
MelissaGUEST
Yeah, unless we padded out the band with like 10 more members or something.
MelissaGUEST
Yeah, loads of extra people.
Brian KehewGUEST
...
Brian KehewGUEST
when you were shooting sideways in the corner, and it shows the Mellotron next to the microphone," and something procedural that we didn't have.
Billy CorganHOST
Yeah.
Brian KehewGUEST
So all the cool pictures of The Beatles jumping on the steps and stuff, not useful to us, but all these cool pictures that we found for the book-
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Brian KehewGUEST
But, uh, one of our friends got us pictures of the auction they had there in the early '80s, where they were selling off all the old equipment-
Billy CorganHOST
[laughs]
Brian KehewGUEST
And the Mellotron-
Billy CorganHOST
That just hurts my heart
Garrett MillerGUEST
And then I get mad and then I'm like, this is trash, but logic has a lot of great sounds, which are all available in main stage, which is $30.
Garrett MillerGUEST
Uh, I will, there's like certain synth sounds and like the Mellotrons and a few different things that are great in Logic that I will run main stage and use the virtual channels in Apollo, like in console, run main stage to those, send MIDI out of my Pro Tools session via the IAC driver, it hits main stage.
Garrett MillerGUEST
I play basically logic sense in the pro tools, um, recorded as audio as if it is like, you know, an external instrument over here.
Garrett MillerGUEST
And I have to treat it that way because I can record the MIDI, um, But like essentially when I'm done playing it, unless I save that main stage session and keep it with my thing, it's kind of gone.
Steve HackettGUEST
We have to have the light show.
Steve HackettGUEST
We have to have the Mellotron.
Steve HackettGUEST
We have to have special effects, which in those days was being cued on cassette tapes.
Steve HackettGUEST
When you hear the children's choir and you hear the...
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Steve HackettGUEST
some very simple little chords.
Steve HackettGUEST
Yeah, I mean, less is more on that when you play those chords.
Steve HackettGUEST
But of course, when you add a Mellotron choir on the top, or indeed any other kind of choir...
Jackson ReedHOST
Sounds big.
Jake BrennanHOST
That wasn't great music.
Jake BrennanHOST
That was a preset loop from my Mellotron called Magnifico Figaro MK II.
Jake BrennanHOST
I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Girls Like You by Maroon 5, featuring Cardi B.
Jake BrennanHOST
And why would I play you that specific slice of excessively cheesy cheese could I afford it? [upbeat music] Because that was the number one song in America on November 2nd, 2018.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
Uh, which is a little longer here.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
And this is also where the Mellotron comes in.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
[laughs]
The SnakeHOST
Mm.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
... or at least where I could hear it.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
It's like rising string sounds, which I never heard before this week.
Alex MildenbergerHOST
Um, but yeah, in the outro there's like strings, Mellotron strings.
The SnakeHOST
Okay.
Justin FryGUEST
The band sounds fine and competent throughout.
Justin FryGUEST
I kind of dig the Mellotron flute in the background there.
Justin FryGUEST
At least I think that's what that is.
Justin FryGUEST
It seems like Josh isn't trying to be plant on this one as much.
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