The Mellotron Group

I build plate reverberation units and hold a patent on one under the name Brick 
Audio. 


If anyone has an interest I can send a pdf of the manual. 

Alas....I do not yet have a Mellotron to demo through it. I suspect that any 
studio smaller than Abbey Road  (which had its own chambers)  used EMT 240 plate 
reverbs in their studio. So most 60's European Mellotron recordings with reverb 
could be assumed to be plate reverb.

If American and recorded in the Capitol or Sunset studio's they also had their 
own chambers. Everyone else uded plates, generally EMT 240's.

A 240 was a 3X6 foot steel plate. The Brick Audio plates are 3X3, 3X5 and 3X7 
stainless steel eliminating the rust issues. The driver is bonded to the plate 
itself eliminating the need to calibrate/setup.

Bill  




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From: Sean <fourtytwominds@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 3:18:10 PM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Tape echo and spring reverb

  
I've never run across a real spring or plate unit. If anyone has one, would you 
do a side by side comparison of spring and plate reverb for the Melly? Thanks.

-Sean

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, tspit74@... wrote:
>
> I grabbed a Multivox MX-312 Multi Echo off Craigslist recently and finally 
>hooked it up to #857. Holy shit! Nothing compares to tape echo and spring 
>reverb. The 312 is an off brand knockoff of the Roland RE-201 Space Echo with 
>some additional features. Particularly "swell reverb" which adds a swelling echo 
>to the reverb signal. Lush doesn't begin to describe it. My advice: If you 
>haven't tried your tron thru an old tape echo/spring reverb, you haven't lived. 
>Tape to tape is a beautiful sound. 
>
> 
> 
> Now back to playing some Starless...
>