From dta3923@yahoo.com Sat Nov 19 10:28:25 2005
Subject:Re: My apologies if I offended anyone

Mark,

I'm puzzled. I don't think you offended anyone. Everyone has an opinion.

Markweisgram@aol.com wrote:
Hi everybody

I want to make this clear. My intention was not to offend anyone while I was
discussing the pro and cons of various clones. Hopefully it is pretty clear
that I was just saying what it was that made me not want to purchase them -
including my own favorite, the VK8 and VK8m.

I think all the clones have their merits. I would be more than overjoyed to
play an Electro , a XK3, CX3 VK8 if they were provided at a gig for me. And
after having a VK7 for 4 years now, there are still things I am finding out
about it.

The big reason I have not upgraded is the chorus vibrato issue. I just feel
that not enough attention has been paid to it. Am I willing to sell my VK7 and
spend anywhere from 1000 to 1500 extra dollars for how much improvement
has been made in the the chorus vib that had come out in the clones since the
VK7? The answer is NO.

Jimmy Smith himself abandoned chorus vibrato in most if not all the
recording he did past 1990. And I find that for most of the blues and rock gigs that
I do, a VK7 with chorale works just fine.

For some reason I do not have the upper octave screaminess problem that some
say they have with their VK7. I do use an Eico tube preamp and I tend to cut
back the treble setting a bit in most cases. I have noticed by the way that
quite a few real Hammonds are screamy in the top octave. I either use an
Leslie 860 or sometimes I stack the 860 on top of a 145 in tandem. Having a bi
amped leslie can help quite a bit with screaminess issues, which have not been a
problem for me.

If anything the VK7 sometimes is a bit more "sterile"sounding than perhaps
a Hammond XK3 or even the Roland VK8. Pushing the leslies a bit helps this.
What I really like about the VK7 in its ease of editing. I really like to
change percussion volume and decay time on the fly - something that the VK7 can
do well that a VK8 for example cannot do. Nor can a Nord Electro do this.
And a real Hammond can't do it either ... unless it is modified.

So for now I play my real Hammonds with chorus vib and my clone without it.
For jazz, I still prefer the real deal. For blues and rock the clone makes
sense - particularly to compete volume wise.

By the way I am also waiting to find out if the new B4 has raised the bar
sound - wise. We will see.

Mark

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