From tymelys22@tadamson.greatxscape.net Thu Dec 21 18:17:45 2000
Subject:Re: Digest Number 155 (OB3 vs. Voce)

Hi, great to hear your comments on the Oberheim.
It's interesting to get a different perspective on products.
I can understand that the chorus would drive you up the wall even
though to me it's not too bad. The reason is I think that for you
perhaps along with many blues and jazz organists the chorus is a
feature which is of paramount importance. Most of the US organists
seem to use the 888000000 setting with chorus 3 and 3rd percussion
bringing in a fast Leslie from time to time but used sparingly.
In the UK most of the recordings I enjoyed were of organists using a
wider range of settings with chorale and fast Leslie being
continually employed and it is the sound of the Leslie with Hammond
that I wanted to try to emulate.
For my purposes the Oberheim is very much superior to the Hammond XM1
that I used to own, with its purer voicing, and which when played
through a Hughes and Kettner with EQ and some cross channel mixing,
comes up with a very pleasing (to my ears) simulation of the recorded
Hammond and Leslie combination.
However since becoming interested in Jazz organ, particularly from
the US., I now have started to enjoy the B3 chorus sound as well and
the Oberheim is a bit too over the top in this area veering towards a
tremelo sound reminding me of the chorus sound on the T200 and the
Oberheim would perhaps not be the product for those who particularly
want chorus as heard through a Leslie cabinet on stop.

For the £299 that I paid for the module though I am delighted with
its sound which is a brilliant match with the H & K Rotosphere.
I would like, one day though, to get hold of a V5 with a Sound in
Motion product but for now at least I am getting far more pleasure
out of the £299 OB3^2 than I ever did with the Hammond module at more
than 3 times the price.



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