The Mellotron Group

On 5 May 2018 at 12:27, fazeka@gmail.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Hi all,

Long time owner, haven't played my 'tron in about 7 years or so. I had it gone through about a year before that (new PS caps, new capstan bearings, new rollers, new belt, new Streetly tapes/frame, new Streetly heads, etc.). It had its motor control board changed sometime in the 90s.

Fired it up tonight and I noticed some popping/clicking sounds in the audio... anyone experience that before? I have to go through the keyboard and adjust the action and all but this popping/clicking is a new one on me.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Chris

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Mike Dickson

Edinburgh

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:49 PM, fazeka@gmail.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Seemed more random. Thru the headphone jack.

But yesterday I played through the output jack on the back into an amp and noticed no pops in the sound throughout, so that was nice. The only other problem I had is that the output would slowly go soft and then die out completely. Then after rotating the volume knob a few times, I got the sound back. This happened a few more times. On the last time it happened, no rotating of the volume (or tone) pots alleviated this but I kept playing and eventually it came back.

I have more questions about my mellotron but I will post them in another thread to the group. I can say it was nice playing her again after all these years!

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john barrick

*Leo got it right the first time*

*then he added a second pickup and got it righter*