From MRK7421@aol.com Wed Feb 02 07:39:56 2011
Subject:Re: Numa - quick review - maybe you've heard this all before?

When I was at NAMM I made sure to bring a pair of headphones, and I was
able to listen to the Numa that way instead of listening through the small
speakers they had set up for it.

Through phones, it sounded to me like I would expect a good tonewheel
Hammond to sound through phones. Because it has easily accessible tone controls
I was able to get it to sound warm and rich by boosting some lows and
backing off highs.

I also noticed that the percussion lacked a certain edginess that I have
experienced in other clones. It really sounded smooth when I set it to slow
decay and also the slow decay was slow, the way I like it. You can tell that
Joey probably had some influence over this because there are small touches
that only a good organist would know.

A big selling point on this will be that it has a phenominal leslie sim
built in. I really like the smoothness of it and lack of hard attack of the
rotation. The chorale speed on this thing sounded great and mixed well
with chorus vibrato - Fast speed speeds up fast but there was nothing unnatural
about it. I didn't try mixing fast with chorus but that is not something
I need to do a lot any way. I like to keep chorus and leslie speeds
separate for the most part.

I am probably not going to be tempted to go out and buy a 500 dollar
piece of outboard gear for it. And the Numa sounds good though small
amplification systems too, It had rich warm bass coming from a pair of 6 inch two way
speakers that were set up at NAMM .

You have some major players - Joey D., Brian Auger and Dr. Lonnie Smith all
getting behind this thing. Dr. Lonnie had a lot of good reaction to it and
I know that his next trip at NAMM was to go down to see Elvio and check
out the dual manual Key B. I did get the word directly from Elvio Previati
that the keybed of the Numa is identical to the Key B, which for some reason
felt lighter to me but I will take his word for it.

I would like to have seen the overdrive display a little more beef and I
would like to have percussion volume adjustment but other than that it
doesn't seem to be lacking anything in the tone department. It appears to have
been born right the first time.

Elvio - the Numa and Key B are major achievements. Thank you for your
dedication to make it happen.

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