From simon@alphabeck.co.uk Sun Feb 26 07:04:32 2012
Subject:Re: guitar amp for CX-3


Combo organs (or Hammonds/clonewheels with no Leslie or sim) can sound fantastic through guitar or bass amps. On my Nord Electro 3 the Vox and Farfisa sounds come alive when you switch on the internal amp sim. The "problem" with organs through guitar amps only occurs when you start putting a *processed* organ sound (amp, speaker or Leslie sim) through a guitar amp, as I already pointed out. Jon Lord and Dave Greenfield had some of the best non-Leslie Hammond sounds ever.

Simon
Recalling another "Ol' Guy's" experience from the 70's.

My first organ was a Yamaha YC-10 which I bought new along with a used Epiphone Bass amp (transistor/1-12") - it was adequate but somewhat dull.
Upgraded to a Fender Bassman (Tubes/4-10"s) and added Mini Korg K2 (the amp was 2 channel) - Full range and sweet sound.
Upgraded organ - Crumar Organizer - I thought sounded great through the Fender.

Bought used "package deal" Farfisa electric piano? with wonky synth/vibe sounds & Fender Twin Reverb, at which point the Crumar was played through the Twin and the Farfisa/MiniKorg through the Bassman.
At the time many friends (some musicians) were very critical of playing an organ through an open back guitar amp, but were quickly shut up when they heard an A/B comparison of the Twin vs. the Bassman (or course the reverb on the Twin didn't hurt either). My Leslie Sim at the time was a Roland Phase Five, which had a neat option of being able to increase the speed with a volume increase = screaming overdriven crescendos.
Then the Crumar was traded for a Hammond M3 & it too sounded good played through the Twin.

Wish I still had both of those Fender amps, the Phase Five and ...the M3!


Grant
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