From BenWaB3@aol.com Fri Feb 27 14:32:13 2009
Subject:Re: Nord C1 live clip

In regards to the C1 in particular sounding thin that's just a "natural" artifact of the C1 Leslie sim. If you play the C1 w/ the sim turned off you get a much fuller robust tone. When you switch the sim on it attenuates?a lot of?of the low mids - probably others too - I'm not very well versed in frequency analysis. The net result though does make the C1 sound thinner than before. It seems like all the sims will attenuate certain frequencies more radically than an actual Leslie, Motion Sound unit, etc. With the Hammond XM2 (& probably the XK's too) I've always said it makes the organ sound like it's just developed a severe head cold.? A real Leslie doesn't attenuate, it just doesn't reproduce certain frequencies whereas the sims use a more "subtractive" process. Another argument for using a real spinner whenever possible, I guess.

Ben Ninmann

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