From groovecake@yahoo.com Wed May 12 09:30:39 2004
Subject:Re: XK3 is a clone?

Oh yeah. It's a clone. A damn good one...but you can
always apply this easy test;

no oil = clone.

;)

Mitch

--- g_e_marshall wrote:
> If the XK3 has mutated so closely back to the
> original that we
> decide not to call it a "clone", can we still
> discuss it here? :-)
> Funny, though, nary a word spoken about it on
> hammond_zone.
> Sounds like a winner, though!
>
> Greg
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "David Oakley"
> wrote:
> > All this chat about the new XK3 'clone' is
> fascinating. I really
> envy
> > all you guys that have managed to bag one already.
> I have not heard
> > the XK3 as yet, but, as i understand it, it's
> using the same sound
> > technology as the new B3. If this is truly the
> case, then i know
> the
> > XK3 is a winner and i understand why everyone who
> has played it, is
> > raving about it. I played the new B3 sometime ago
> and i was really
> > impressed with it. I felt that i was playing a B3,
> not a clone. It
> > felt, looked and sounded exactly like a tomewheel
> B3. I guess in
> the
> > true definition of the term, even the new B3 is a
> clone, but who
> > cares, to everyone other than organ tech's and
> tonewheel purists,
> the
> > new B3 is a B3. Even people like McGriff and Joey
> are playing them.
> > So, that said, if the XK3 has the same sound as
> the new B3, doesnt
> > that make it a real Hammond? If its manufactured
> by Hammond, says
> > Hammond on the back/front, sounds exactly like a
> B3 and has the
> same
> > playing characteristic ie: same expression curve,
> same vibrato,
> same
> > percussion, same keyclick, same presets and
> options. ???
> > If the same sound technology has been used on the
> Xk3, (Please
> > confirm oh knowledgeable ones..) then we all
> really have a
> justified
> > reason to acquire a serious case of gear lust..
> > Personally, i'm waiting though, i want to see
> what's coming out of
> > the next NAMM. If there's a dual manual version to
> be announced
> then
> > maybe that's for me.....
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Mark Zyla
> wrote:
> > > > So I guess none of us will be satisfied
> unless Hammond comes
> out
> > > > with a real Hammond organ. MikeW.
> > > >
> > > But Mike, these are real Hammonds. Tone wheel
> generators will
> > never be
> > > manufactured again.
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>



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