From jackoverfull@gmail.com Fri Nov 16 16:10:03 2012
Subject:Re: Installing H.O.A.X.-3 card into a WLM organ

I can't say why becouse I don't know myself.

VB3 sounds as it has no "layer" under what you play…The notes are all
right but there is something "missing".

Keyb/Numa sounds "plastic" and flatter (as "with less movement in the
sound", nothing to do with tunes) and cold.

Nords sounds "gummy"…

Abd the percussion on VASE III sounds "fake"…Can't say how, it just
does. Same for the Leslie sim and the tone, actually.

And EVB3 is metallic.

Thes are all subjective thing, of course, not easy to explain and
surely not shared by anyone. What I can say is that I had a few "spot
the clone" sessions with other organists and I got it right almost all
the time (only exception: a KeyB played with a real Leslie buried in
the mix).

All of those (and surely the hoax as well) are playable (by me,
anyway) using a Leslie, not necessarily so with the internal
simulation. Some sounds better than others. To these hears, anyway.
And, by the way, it has already happened a couple of times that I
identified a missing (unsoldered) drawbar in a real Hammond just by
hearing someone else playing at full organ. And this very night I
stopped rehearsal because only one of the channel of the mojo was
coming out from the speakers (realized something was not right from
the first few notes, understood what it was after a few minutes.
Turned out being a cable problem)…But well, that's easy.

Regarding "real" hammonds, they do sounds all different, they can be
setted in different ways and they ALWAYS sounds right when you play
them (or at least that's my limited experience: played very few of
those, never tried an m-serie spinet).

In closing, anyway, there is little that hampers my playing than an
instrument that doesn't respond the way it should to what I play and
how I set my drawbars, so I care deeply about how my clone sounds and
how the PA sounds, even if noone else will notice (well, always got
compliments for my sound, so they do notice, after all) I do and I
play better if my instrument sounds better.

Just a couple of cents.

Sent from iPhone

Il giorno 16/nov/2012, alle ore 23.37, Frederick somerville > ha scritto:

> Risking to sound offensive Jack.
> If your ears are as sharp as to be able to pick out different types
> of clones.
> Then I would expect a clearer answer when I asked why the HOAX sound
> as hoax(fake) in your ears.
>
> Regards Frederick Somerville
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>