From rldalessandro@yahoo.com Mon Jul 21 19:27:34 2008
Subject:Re: Can't sell my old CX!

I couldn't agree more.

Playing style probably accounts for 70-80% of the sound and feel. The
problem is that many players style may be influenced by what he or
she hears and feels from the interface.

Personnally I play more hammond like on my XK3c than on my nord. This
is due to the more accurate expression pedal action, location of
drawbars, and switches etc.

I've also noticed how much nicer my Nord sounds through a small
fender tube amp (musicmaster bass) for low volume practice than
through a mackie SRM 450. Improvement is to both the organ (although
weak in the bottom end) and EP's. It sounds more hammond like through
the tubes and more importantly the amps output transformer i guess.
The opposite end of the spectrum is playing though headphones. I find
it horrible.

I've noticed many bass players around here (melbourne) using these
new Italian Mark Bass amps. They are super small, compact and light
weight using neodyme speakers etc and really thump it out. I'm
waiting for someone to release soemthing similar for organists. Given
the drastic improvement in the leslie sims I would be happy with a
combo with stationary 2x10's and a V21 type horn for that bite and
sizzle.

Rob

> What you run it through makes a lot of difference.
> Any clone will sound much better through a leslie.
> And running clones through tube amps may also warm things up quite a
> bit.
>
> I tried plugging real tonewheel hammonds straight into the board.
> That also sounds quite dull (unless you're looking for the early
Booker
> T Jones sound).
>
> And it's in the fingers, too. I had a player whose keyboard I
played at
> a gig once tell me that I made the organ patch sound much more like
a
> Hammond than he managed to. So after the gig I showed him some
typical
> hammond licks and chops I tend to use often, and he said, yeah,
that's
> it!
>
> Bm
>