From tande.adamson@btinternet.com Tue Nov 15 10:12:07 2005
Subject:Re: Hammond vs. Korg vs. Roland vs. ...

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Lou C wrote:
>

A major part of the Hammond organ sound is of course the leslie
speaker.
Even the very earliest Yamaha squawk box organs could sound half
decent played through a twin rotor Leslie.
If you aren't going to use a real leslie then the built-in Leslie
simulation may be the deal maker/breaker.
I now own an XK-3 which is a superb Hammond Organ Clone but in my
opinion ( and many others ) its Leslie sim doesn't quite cut the
mustard. I run mine through a Dynacord leslie simulator and a leslie
2102 which both work well, but really adds to the cost.

Pior to this I owned an Electro Rack which has a really nice and
powerful simulator, not maybe 100% accurate but one that sounds very
musical, and preferable IMO ( though not every-one's ) to the B4 sim.

The Electro though didn't have quite the right basic tone to my ears
and was IMO bettered by the Roland VK8-M and VK-8 (OS version2 )
I really like the VK8-M and I am looking to buy a Roland RT-20
Leslie simulator, to replace the Dynacord CLS22 if the new 'Leslie
pedal' is as good as the VK8's simulator.
Both VK-8 and Electro ( and of course XK-3 ) have good chorus
vibrato too.

The general consensus seems to be that the Korg has the most
accurate Leslie simulator but perhaps has a more strident tone than
the others, suited in particular to rock.

If the Roland RT-20 pedal turns out to be a really good rotary
speaker simulator you could do worse than buy a used Voce V3, V5 or
new V5 plus which are excellent Hammond substitutes but come
without keyboard, reverb or, in the cases of V5 and V5 plus, Leslie
simulators.

One more opinion for you to mull over, Thomas