Awesome1 Thank you for listening and we're happy you like it!

I had always wondered why those bottom notes sounded different. I found out about that cello player a few years ago. His name is Reginald Kirby and was also a player on a number of Beatles recordings including Eleanor Rigby! On my old worn tapes, it's not as noticeable as the newer cleaned up tapes and digital versions. Those were shockingly different, like night and day, and way more noticeable than my tapes.

LOL! I don't usually play or learn cover songs, but that is the ONE Mellotron part I did learn! Because as you said, It is "Mellotron Law". But I didn't play it here because my muscle disease has affected my hands and fingers to the point where it's difficult to play.

Thanks for watching! I'm not sure I know what the "running tape effect" is, could you please explain further? Thank you!

@neutralearth1061 it's simple, just press a note with the violin effect and let the note go until the note runs out (it's sounds better with a chord)

@@Taremioca69 Cool, thanks! I love that too!

Thanks! Yes, the tapes will play approximately 8 seconds. Now this might seem to some a major fault to some keyboard players, but in actuality it forces the player to use what is now known to experienced Mellotron players as the "Crawling Spider" technique to get around the sustain limitation when longer sustain times are required.

Thanks for watching! Yeah, you'd think they could have put some type of barrier between the motor and the tapes. I would hope they measured the magnetic field and determined a barrier wasn't needed.

It would look even better if I hadn't sold it in 1989. I bought it back from the guy I sold it to in 2011. The previous owner didn't give it the same love and attention I give it.

@@neutralearth1061 right as I am reading "love and attention" 1:15 happens haha. Awesome machine.

@@Frog7609 LOL, I heard the loud clunk as I was removing the lid, but didn't realized I whacked the keyboard until after I watched the video. I'm a klutz! But a loving klutz! LOL.

Thanks! (Craig here) The entire Mellotron tape library is massive, and would require more money than I have to acquire, and if I did, I’d need to buy a separate building to store all of them! I do have the digital M4000D Mellotron with all the extra Sound Cards, so I have most, if not all of the original Mellotron tape library at a fraction of the cost. And they all fit in my hand. I’ll do a video on the M4000D later. And thanks for the open up the Mellotron and show how it works suggestion, I will do that.

Until I do my own video on what a Mellotron is and how it works, I found this excellent video that explains the instrument very well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKqnaZp-bNCMrtUsi=scyOEm3WqQmlXlK-

@@neutralearth1061 It's wild that the tape is not a continuous loop but rather a spring loaded single fixed length section. I was always baffled that they didn't use a looped cartridge assigned to each key. Thanks for sharing!

@@hamiltonburger4574 The reason they used the fixed length tape is because most instruments have an initial attack characteristic. If they used a loop, you'd lose that, and it wouldn't sound as authentic.

@@philiphart6688 You’re welcome! Not surprised you’ve not heard of us. We are not professional musicians. Just a couple old friends trying to have fun and create interesting music and then post it on KZbin.

Thanks so much for the compliment! It was allot of fun making the album, was happy with results.

Once again, thanks so much for your positive response to our music. I don’t think a tour will happen. We live in two different states, so we don’t even record in the same room. We send SD cards back & forth to each other. We have actually played on stages, live, in previous bands, but none of our NE recordings have been in each other’s presence. I think in certain ways that has its advantages. Anyway, thanks again!

Thanks for listening, and all your positive feedback!

Thank you for your support! We will continue to make music as long as we can, but due to my degenerative muscle disease any type of touring will not be possible. As twelveouncetrance4034 commented, we are in two different states, and have not even been in the same room when creating Neutral Earth music. But we do appreciate your support!

I think my reply to you went into general comments. But I had commented that we are currently working on “album” five, another “concept” album (one long song)…

That sounds awesome! If only…

Thanks for listening and the favorable review! Several of the songs on CVO were recorded on the M24 and then transferred to the master sd card of the DP32.

👍thanks!!!

I have a recent interest in processes used in recording the bass guitar. If it's okay with you guys, could you give some ideas on how you recorded bass on the album ? This is really a great progrock album, and deserves billions of hits and likes.

Thanks for your positive comments on CVO - very much appreciated! Back when we recorded CVO, I was using both a Danelectro & Ibanez 4 string bass. The two primary pedals I used were a Digitech RP255 & a Boss G3. I sparingly used a Boss B3 here and there. All bass parts (and guitar/keyboard) were recorded direct, no amp or mic. No return/send was incorporated. Bass out to efx pedal and into a mixer (Yamaha MG10X) and then the mixer direct to either the M24 or DP32. Sometimes I used the M24 as the mixer into the 32SD. Hope this is helpful. I currently use different pedals, the RP255 blew up. But on all 4 CDs we have released I have recorded all my instruments direct…Cheers!

Wow. Apart from the songs, which I think are in the league of progrock from its greatest era (1970s), the overall sound you achieved is also great. I am now checking out your other works. Please keep on gifting the world with this musical greatness.

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoy!

Thanks, that’s quite a compliment! We recorded this in high school. Craig and I are still plugging away w/ Neutral Earth.

Tony- thanks for giving it a listen! Appreciate the compliment!!!

Awesome! Thanks for listening!

Thank you! And this, our 1st album has less Mellotron than all of our following recordings! The epic Sigmund's Cat starts as a Frippertronics experiment using the M400 Mellotron 3 Violins/Flute/Cello tapes and adds sounds from my other 3 tape frames and then Joe masterfully adds everything else after that. I would say this album is also more Brian Eno inspired and therefore less proggy. We explore our Prog roots and influences much more on our albums after this one. Thanks for listening! And after discovering your channel we subscribed because we LOVE Prog too!

@@neutralearth1061 Where are you based? Could we catch you live?

@@SpinninProg We are based in the U.S.A. I (Craig) am based in Illinois with a cabin in northern Wisconsin, and Joe is based in Michigan with a winter place in Florida. We both grew up in Rockford Illinois and started playing music together there in the 1970s. Then adulthood and jobs separated us until 2017 when we decided for the fun of it, to revive the band we started in school together by using the same multi track TASCAM DP-32 recorders and sending SD cards back and forth with each of us adding our own parts and then returning the card to the other. I guess that's the long way to say we're not able to play live. Heck, we haven't even been able to record in the same room together! With my (Craig) degenerative muscle disease, I have difficulty walking and often use wheelchairs to get around, limiting my access to some places. But we sure are having fun doing this!

@@neutralearth1061 Do you sell your music on physical media? If you had a copy of something, we could review it on the channel.

@@neutralearth1061 Sorry to hear about your health issues. My brother was a lecturer at the University of Illinois (Go Illini!). I've been all over the state with him. It's a beautiful place and I thought Chicago was a wonderful city to visit. I hope to return sometime. We will mention your music in our next Mellotron video if you don't mind.

Thanks for being a loyal listener. Happy New Year!!!

Yes, we recorded this using the TASCAM DP32. Specifically, two DP32s. We live in two different locations and send SD cards back & forth between us , adding our respective parts, until we finish the “album”. We’ve done that process on all the Neutral Earth album posts, here on KZbin. On a few of the songs we have utilized a TASCAM Model 24, but everything is finalized and mixed down on the DP32. Thanks for listening!

Thank you very much for the kind words. While we usually try to do something different for each album, (to expand our creativity) we had so much fun creating music in this manner, we already have plans to do it again! ✌

Thank you for the positive review and also for your help in sorting out some of the issues we encountered recording Coma with the TASCAM DP32 & SD cards in general. Your advice is always helpful and very much appreciated!

Yes, thanks so much!!!

Thanks so much! Shortly we will post “Coma” which is a “concept album”. Hope you’ll check it out!

We love it when unintended accidents turn out to be really cool.

Thanks, we appreciate the positive feedback. We are very close to posting our next offering which will be titled “Coma”… Cheers!

@@joefasula946 Coma sounds a good title, I'm into out of reality thought provoking music,

@@TheArpomni2 Thanks- totally agree. Coma will definitely continue in a thought provoking manner for sure. Hope you’ll check it out!

Thanks for listening- we will be releasing a new cd shortly. Stay tuned

Thanks!

Glad you found us! This is actually the third album/CD we’ve recorded and posted to KZbin. We are about halfway through the recording of the 4th, which we will be posting upon completion. Thanks for listening!

Thanks for listening, more to come…

Thanks for the compliments on the music, as well as the suggestion! We have two new cds in the works, one which should hit KZbin this Spring. Your support is very much appreciated!

Thanks for the thumbs up…certainly glad you enjoyed the ride. New album/CD will be coming out this Spring… the journey continues…

Thanks for listening!!!

Thank you sir. We appreciate the support! We have a new album/CD coming out this Spring. Stay tuned!!!

Thank you for listening!!! New music coming soon!!!

Thank you for listening and for the kind words! ☮

Love your “prog dog” handle. We are currently working on two new “albums”. Hope to post at least one of them this spring; if not both?

Jeff certainly created some memorable riffs and fascinating music with us! Eternal Void DNA runs deep in the music of Neutral Earth. I love how we celebrate our E.V. past and honor it with occasional references, song inspiration and new visions of old material when possible.

Thank you! Yes! We are currently working on two new albums! One is a concept album, loosely based on a short story by Hermann Hesse. And the other is a 45 minute single song project where part one is a new version of a song we recorded as teenagers in 1975, from there Craig added a new extension to part one (part two) and Joe finished that part and then added a continuation that will become part three. We will continue this process until we reach 45 minutes! Thanks for listening! Stay tuned!

Thanks for your support, like Craig said we are currently working on two new “albums” simultaneously.