From sholcom1@utk.edu Fri Jul 05 14:02:13 2002
Subject:B-3000 cabinet --> faux B-3

I found a Hammond B-3000 for sale for a few hundred dollars. I'm not really
interested in it for itself, since I understand it has the reputation of
being one of the poorest imitation B-3s ever. However, that familiar-looking
cabinet got me thinking. What would be required in order to take it and make
it a sort of poor person's version of the new B-3--in other words, MIDI-ized
with a digital sound source? I assume it's old enough to be pre-MIDI and so
would need to be retrofitted, but once that's done, replacing its internal
sound source with a decent clone would result in something with the "feel"
of a B-3, yes? Or no? Or is the B-3000 just too different in terms of switch
layout etc. for it to "feel" like a B-3?

TIA,
Steve H