From jake92028@yahoo.com Sun Feb 24 20:20:45 2008
Subject:Re:Diversi Organ Vs Hammond

After reading with much interest all the details of the Diversi vs
Hammond debate, I'd like to bring something else to the table.

Aside from a relatively few (would the title be pro-hobbyist?) pro
organists who already have their axe and are gigging, playing or
recording, whatever - but are intellectually or electronically
interested in all the details of what the latest manufacturers like
Diversi are putting together...

This is your forum and you should post as much as you want but:

For every not-really-going-buy-one interested player (and a few that
will), there is a large biomass of members who already have
their "mojo workin"! with what they're playing now. Without relating
to good/bad, I have no intest in this new product because it's a
dollar or two too much and a year or two too late. Free-standing
affordable clones went "over the top" awhile back, while module plus
controller clones maybe did it sooner.

The players and lurkers NOT involved in this discussion are already
happily playing their Voce V5's, Roland VK7's, VK8's, Hammond Suzuki
XK's, Nord Electros, Stages, and C1's; Korg CX3's and whoever I left
out.

What can anyone cloning another B3 and Leslie today really offer
unless it's cheaper and waay better - like how do you get from 98% to
100%, and is it even worth it except from a point of technical
interest? Boo hoo my keyclick or percussion or chorus/vibrato isn't
perfect for my tastes could be the same squawk laid on an old B3
console 25 years ago - but it wouldn't because the console sounded so
good - unless you got stuck with one of the really awful ones which
got sold and replaced quick.

So keep up the debate and God Bless.. but I don't think much money is
going to be changing hands between Diversi and anyone but first-time
players. And Joey D. as a rep for this stuff doesn't impress me -
what else can a niche star do to make a living in a niche market?

YMMV ~ Walter j