From goffmac747@aol.com Fri Mar 04 09:26:56 2011
Subject:Re: HOLY CRAP!!! VB3 KICKS A$$!!!


In a message dated 3/04/2011 11:08:38 AM, boo@icsnet.com writes:

<< conversation reminded me of this video. For every 30 guys who plays
Green Onion like crap, one guy like this comes along. A superb performance, an
veritable drawbar clinic, and honky reverb thru the rotors (I think?) Stay
with it 'til the second solo, he tears it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7m2muhoEk >>

Great signature intro repro and playing. Duck didn't have a pipe.

The reverb definitely came from the XK. Couldn't tell if there was a
Leslie. My laptop is bad on videos. At first I thought it was a real B3 when the
song started until I realized I was getting brain fatigue from listening to
repeating loops. As the camera angles and lights revealed the "B3" had weird
buttons and an LCD screen I figured out why the brain fatigue. (Sorry XK
lovers, but to me if the purpose is to do organ intensive work and not just
pads here and there, the long loops will get in the way to those that can hear
them).

The reverb washed out the top rotor effect and left the lower rotor only
sort of evident. The angles of incidence from a rotor verbed effect within the
enclosed confines of the leslie cabinet sends the doppler out of phase as
the preceeding note is still trailing to clobber the succeeding note,
confusing which wave is the original wave creating the doppler. The property of a
doppler is that the pitch increases and decreases as proximity to the
listener changes in the case of a moving sound source like a police siren passing
by your house. The doppler effect washes out when reverb (delay) is added to
it as in the case of hearing a siren go by your house in a city with tall
buildings vs. if you lived in an area with few buildings or a suburb, short
building situation.

Perhaps a work around if you like this effect and are planning to record it
or produce it live is to take a dry signal out of your clone and mix it in
with the Leslie verbed track. In a way similar to how some jazz organists
who take a direct line out of the B3 and add it alongside the leslie track,
mixing the two.

If you want the organ/leslie effect to sound closer to the listener, adding
reverb is not the way to go. Then this creates monsters like Auger and
Michaels with no Leslie at all. Real compared to what? Uh..do you know what I
mean? :)

Goff