From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Sun Oct 19 08:06:54 2003
Subject:Re: Roland VR-760 vs. Electro shootout

Thanks Carl, I'll do a little more tweaking and see
what happens.

T
--- Carl Van Selman wrote:
> 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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>

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