From tyrvaine@hytti.uku.fi Wed Aug 01 00:42:34 2001
Subject:Re: EMU B3

--- In CloneWheel@y..., rick155@a... wrote:
> Whether Emu used a recapped B3 or not for its samples, this clone
> sounds coldly digital to me. At least, that's how the mp3's sound
> to me through both speakers and headphones (I've listened to
> the "swinginb3" mp3 several times). This is not simply a case of
> over-emphasized highs. There's just nothing organic about the
> sound, to my ears, especially when the leslie sim in on slow. But
> hey, run it through a real Leslie or even a Pro3T and it may be a
> completely different story.
>
> Rick

Well - it's a ROMpler - that should tell allmost everything... It
doesn't matter how good B-3 samples you have - it just isn't the same
thing. For starters it does _sound_ different even when playing a
middle C and E together from one single B-3 than playing a C from one
B-3 and E on another at the same time (with different Leslies -
synced together though). That's the case with all these ROMplers too -
they just have individual recorded sounds. They don't have any of
the filter routings which are in the tonewheels.

It doesn't matter if your ROMpler has one or few good analogue-
sounding filter: it should have all the filter routings like in a B-3
too and thats a whole lot of of filters connected together - none of
the samplers can do that. The filters simply contribute significantly
to the definitive sound of the B-3... Change the filter caps from one
old B-3 and you'll notice very different sounds. All in all that's
just one of the major issues here I think...

-- Mika Tyrväinen