From swbeach@worldchat.com Fri Jun 30 11:41:29 2006
Subject:Re: Volume control of pedal/manual bass

For jazz, the standard is to have upper, lower and pedals all through the organ's expression pedal. A stock B-3 and 2 Leslies. That's the way Jimmy Smith did it and he basically invented jazz organ as we know it today.

For rock and others though, this doesn't cut it. The volume needed in the bottom end is just not there. What I did on my B-3 was insert an output at the lower matching transformer, which would short out the lower manual and bass pedals from the Leslie, and I would send to a rather large bass amp. The signal at this point is rather weak, so you need a good preamp and EQing, but the bass can me loud and solid. Of course it is constant and not affected by the expression pedal. This method (or variations of) was used by lots of rockers in the day (Skip Van Winkle, Vincent Crane "Crazy World of Arthur Brown", Winwood, etc.)

Steve B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Previte
To: 'CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com'
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: RE: [CWSG] Volume control of pedal/manual bass

I may have an "organ trio" situation coming up and it's my plan to play
manual bass on my XK. Right now the expression pedal controls the volume of
the bass as well as the upper manual. Is this the way most organ players
that also handle the bass do it as opposed to having the manual bass set at
a certain independent volume and having the expression pedal just
controlling the upper manual? Thanks in advance for any comments.

Peter

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