From MRK7421@aol.com Mon Feb 21 12:29:07 2011
Subject:Re: Numa, Xk3c, Nord, most authentic?

One other thing I forgot to mention about the Numa. I really like the key click adjustability and the overall effect of the keyclick.

I spend a lot of time practicing through phones, and there were some clones I tried where the key click was not adjustable. Also, the keyclick would not be aligned with the sound of the note.... it would seem slightly behind, and that drove me crazy.

The Numa click is adjustable and very right. Brian Auger used quite a bit of click on his settings at NAMM, and it works for that signature sound of his.

An advantage of the Numa is that you don't have to go into the internal settings to adjust things like key click. It's right there on the panel.

But no, this thing doesn't seem to feel cheaper to me than any other popular clone. And I haven't heard a trace of the pitch bend problem that was reported late in 2010 when this first came out.

Only one thing. I would gladly trade percussion volume adjustability for "leakage" adjustability any day of the week. The people who love clunk/ thunk percussion are probably going to find that the Numa does it well. On a real Hammond slow decay has a little less volume than fast decay. To compensate I have been EQ ing the 3K range back a bit. The Numa slow decay volume is right up there with the fast decay volume. So I would like to cut back the volume of slow decay ideally.





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