From smikkel@online.no Thu Apr 30 09:12:48 2009
Subject:XK3c vs. Nord C1/C2?

Hi!

I'm a jazz/progressive rock player, and I need to get a hammond keyboard/clone with two manuals.
I've tested the Nord C1 extensively, and it sounded really great. That's the first time I've been able to get some really credible Keith Emerson sounds out of a Hammond clone (the digital distortion really sounds good IMO). It had this very meaty sound and great percussion/key click, which made it very useable for rock music (up front in the sound stage, not just as a backing instrument).
Now, I'm very tempted at the XK-Pro System (with an XK3c and the lower manual), but the sound quality of the keybaord is no.1 for me, as I will be using the leslie sim quite a lot.
How does these two hammonds compare (tonewheel tone, leslie sim, overdrive, etc.)?

Any comments or advice would be very much appreciated!
Thanks for reading. :)