From groovecake@yahoo.com Tue Jan 04 15:36:55 2005
Subject:Re: Setting XK-3 for no Leslie (was: How can I get...)

You can mess with the settings to make the lower notes
or the higher notes distort first. With some tweaking,
I have been able to get a nicely usable Chester
Thompson overdrive sound.

Mitch

--- funkyhammond wrote:

>
> Thanks, for reposting it.
>
> That's cool that you tried that, but I'm still
> evaluating the XK-3 and
> need something I can try in the store.
>
> Did you (or anyone else out there who's tried this)
> find the change in
> tubes to have a significant effect on the tone of
> the overdrive when
> using the internal leslie sim? You mentioned the
> high notes singing,
> but how about the effect on deeper chords? Do you
> find it gives a
> warmer distortion (something closer to a real
> Hammond-Leslie setup)
> than the fuzzy distortion it seems to have with the
> original tubes?
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "jjmcs49"
> wrote:
> >
> > These are three previous posts I wrote regarding
> the XK-3's tubes
> > etc.on the Hammond_XK-3 forum. They are just
> information I have
> > gathered, things I have tried and observations I
> have made. They
> > don't count for anything. So far noone else has
> commented on their
> > results with different tubes, but I doubt that I
> am the only one who
> > has tried others. It seems to me if Hammond can
> put different tubes
> > in them, so can I.
> [...]
>



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