From jackoverfull@gmail.com Thu Feb 02 13:33:11 2012
Subject:Re: How exact are our ears?


Il giorno 02/feb/2012, alle ore 19.48, Frederick Somerville ha scritto:

> > Well, yes, many clones have more "life" when the sound is "dirtied". But
> > for the ones looking for a pristine hammond sound (cleaner than many "real"
> > hammonds, perhaps) that isn't much useful.
> >
> You loose me on the dirtied part not being useful.
> To me a pristine hammond sound has all of the "defects" and is extremely
> dirty by any audio standard.
> If would have visited a project meeting in R&D at Hammond in 1934 we would
> have note that they where deeply concerned with all of the defect they
> feared would kill the project which was meant to replace a church organ.
>
> Luckily they did not manage to get the defects out of the organ.
No doubt about this.

What i mean is that in many situation I want a powerful but very clean sound, with no distortion, little or no leakage and so on. If the emulator only sounds good when distortion and leakage are on then it isn't for me.

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