From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Thu Mar 09 14:48:29 2000
Subject:RE: [Voce] Micro B, the laughs on me

John,

> The real joke is on me though because I haven't been suckered in a while,
even
> buying on the net. I asked the fella I bought it from how the unit sounded
and he
> said to his ears it was very close to a B3 and the Leslie sim was
great.I'm not
> sure what he has for ears or what's in them but the laugh is defiantly on
me.

Go a little easy on the previous owner. I have had "Hammond players" in the
audience come up looking for the B-3 and Leslie when I was playing: a) an
Elka X-50, which wasn't even really up to par with the Korg CX-3; b) a
Roland D-50 through an Alesis Quadraverb in Lezlie mode; and c) an
simulation on my Alesis S4 through the RPM-1. I believe that in all three
cases, the audience member was sincere about how good he thought it sounded,
but didn't quite have my picky taste. Many owners think their Korg CX-3's,
Viscount D-9's, Oberhiem OB-X3's, and Crumar T-2's sound" just like a B-3,"
too. If they're happy, and the audience is OK, then so be it.

In your case, I think your having an M-3 as a reference works against the
illusion. I think that adding some >5kHz rolloff between the Micro-B and
the RPM might help a bit. Then again, you MIGHT have a broken unit. Can
anybody with a Micro-B make John an MP3 recording of a standard setting like
888800000, for comparison? Direct into the computer or tape deck would be
best, with no EQ or EFX.

Best regards,
-BW

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Ashby Solutions™
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bruce@ashbysolutions.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Timberlake [mailto:wrtlake@colfax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:52p
To: VoceSupportGroup@onelist.com
Subject: [Voce] Micro B, the laughs on me

From: "John Timberlake"

Even taking the limitations of running the Micro B through my stereo
system I was surprised how bad it sounds.I picked up a 1/4 in adapter and
routed it's signal into the stereo on the same line my computer signal takes
using a switchbox.Talk about a noise machine,even with the line level
situation improved it's noisy and has these obnoxious clicks when the key
activates the tone and when the tone is deactivated.Running the signal
through the RPM-1 does help some but still leaves a lot to be desired.I
researched the Micro as much as I could on the net and didn't expect a lot
but this sucks.Is it possible I have a defective unit or are they just noisy
beasts that need a lot of massaging to even sound decent. I wasn't expecting
miracles for 125.0 but I thought it would at least sound better than the
soundfont I'm using. The soundfont is a bit synthetic but has a full rich
tone whereas the Micro is slightly more realistic but thin, shrill and no
beef.I suppose I could pick up something like the Quad 2 or a Roland GT-3
(with very good amp sims,several eq stages,chorus, reverb, noise gate, etc.)
and further massage the tone but I'm not sure it would be worth it. Any
cheese out there to go with my cyber Whine. The more I listen to the
tunes I collected at the Hammond site that Rufus put up the harder it is to
listen to crummy Hammond tones.Maybe it's time to see what is ailing the M3
I have and try running it through the RPM 1 or god forbid find a leslie for
it( wife will love that, more furniture she didn't pick out) Well, enough
venting for now.

Later,
JT

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