Yes but I was asking Andy McCluskey about the
melltrons Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark used to use
(on his website forum at
http://www.omd.uk.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=9&topic=63)
and here's what he had to say...
"OK feline1 here are a few answers.
We used a mellotron Mk1 on "architecture + morality"
[album] but were advised that if we were going on the road
to get a Novatron. The Mk1 had a very bad whine created by
the power supply. Streetly told us it was a design fault.
I still own the Novatron and OMD tapes for it.
"Romance of the Telescope" [famous B-side] is actually a
Prophet five factory preset for the out of tune brass sound
but the choir is mellotron.
Streetly made us some special tape sets for live so that we
could use only the sounds that we needed without changing
tape sets during the gig. As you probably know it takes
about 5 mins to change the tapes.. also we had other things
sat on the mellotron on stage, so opening the top was not
an option.
Our only real problem that we ever had on stage with the
Novatron was in Italy at a gig in a large tent. All the
power was from a small generator and everytime the lights
got really bright on stage the power supply to equipment
reduced making the Novatron flywheel slow down so the notes
went very flat. Once our lighting guy realised the problem
we did the rest of the show with reduced lights to keep the
Novatron in tune.
We had many more problems later on with the instruments
that replaced the Novatron...The bloody Emulator Mk2.. "
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