From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Apr 12 22:20:49 2007
Subject:Re: Electro 73 -disappointing
Yeah, but the leslie sim is pretty damn important.
chuck wrote: After about 15 minutes I have to say I'm disappointed in the Electro.
The Leslie is a bit too much. And I've noticed the slightest hint of the old XK phasing sound when the Leslie is in tremolo mode. Is it possible I've got my hands on an old OS and these issues are addressed in newer downloads?
The sound is muddy in the middle of the keyboard and from there down it's lost in the mix. Without the percussion for definition it's a matter of jumping on the volume knob to try to elevate the sound.
There is some idiotic midrange sound to it that just won't go away no matter how I tweak it. Unfortunately, that "sound" or "frequency" rears it's ugly head in all of the draw bar settings.
As I've always found with clones it's an "either" "or" situation.
Good sound/bad sim, good sim/bad sound, bad sim/good vibrato.
As I've learned over the years, a good all around clone just doesn't exist.
I'm going to give it a couple of more days of work and if I can't get an improvement in sound it has to go back. Besides, having it become work ain't no fun.
I'm a run and gun player. I don't have time to attempt tweaks that don't appear to be possible.
At least the XK3 is 95% out of the box. At least the Nord I have doens't even touch the XK3 engine.
I guess in a word it sounds fake. Or a feeble attempt at a Hammond clone.
With all of the dough I've laid out for clones and keyboards I could have had S&S chop up three organs.
So far it looks like the XK3 still has the clones beat with the exception of that weak Leslie sim and vibrato.
Too bad-so close yet so far.........
Chuck
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