From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Tue Oct 07 10:08:23 2003
Subject:Re: Jon Lord sound with a CX-3

Guitar amps would be ideal for this purpose. And
actually, the old CX3 is a great choice for this
application.

Back in the day (when I was teaching myself to play
bass by playing with some friends who were GREAT heavy
rock players doing Deep Purple/Free/Humble Pie) a
keyboardist in that band used an old CX3, an Electro
Harmonix Big Muff, and a Roland JC120. I think if you
find a nice tube amp, you can get away without the Big
Muff, but the advantage is the JC120 will help smooth
out things and give you a pseudo-leslie vibe
(generating motion via the chorus).

If you go that route (JC120), I recommend getting a
Fulltone BassDrive ($185.00 new). I've used that on
my Electro with very satisfying results for heavy Deep
Purple sounds. The CX3 will be that much ballsier with
it. If you're on a budget, you can probably find a
Boss DS1 (orange distortion pedal) for less than $40.

Better yet, find yourself a small JCM800 combo (Lord
was using that on the "Machine Head" DVD with his
Hammond and it sounded killer!). You can find those
for around $500 or less used.

T
--- Andre Beckershoff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I plan buying a 70's Korg CX-3 soon. I don't own a
> Leslie and think I
> won't buy one for the next months ahead or longer.
> But that is not a
> problem as I wanted to play Jon Lord stuff mostly,
> and he didn't use
> Leslies very often.
>
> I wanted to ask if it is possible to let a CX-3
> sound like a Lord-beast
> and what kind of amplifier you would recommend. Do
> guitar amps work for
> that purpose?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andre
>

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