From carl@vanselman.com Sun Oct 19 02:32:44 2003
Subject:Re: Roland VR-760 vs. Electro shootout

Hi Tony,
Sorry the VR760 didn't turn you on. I get a huge amount of bass from mine within the organ section. I found that the balanced outputs rather than the 1/4" jack outputs are not only 'hotter' but seem to have a fuller sound because of that 'hotness, sounds weird but try it! Also the Leslie sim seems much better from the balanced outputs - no logical reason but give it a try before you return the VR760, also within each organ patch you can adjust various leslie aspects. One of these is the distance the mikes are set from the leslie cabinet (modelled). The closer you set the virtual mikes the more 'throb' you get from the leslie sim. I used to have an Electro and I am the first to admit the Electro organ is much 'bass-ier' and the leslie sim is very good but I don't play organ all night in the bands I play in and the other advantages of the VR760 make up for it. Our sound engineer couldn't tell the difference live between the Electro and the VR760 for organ sounds, (he gets a mix out from my small keyboard mixer to the main desk so I've already adjusted the EQ before he gets the signal).

I am also finding that I layer the internal concert grand with the 'rocker' piano (+ one octave) from the SRX07 card, you pay a bit in polyphony but the resulting piano sound is really full and works great live. The Electric grand from the SRX card can have tremolo assigned to it from the synth section FX and can be adjusted from the MFX control knob to have the amount of tremolo you want.

Carl

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