From satturnsc2@yahoo.com Sun Sep 16 19:03:14 2012
Subject:Re: concert last night (was: Less Expensive Alternative to Vent?)

GREAT IDEA!
" turn the Vent about 45 degrees so the fast/slow switch is pointing
at you. So you won't accidentally hit the "bypass" and end up with a
"dead" sound in the middle of a phrase." This is excatly what happened to me once this summer while performing in an auditorium in the part of Magic Carpet Ride where every instrument but organ drops out -Not Good!

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From: Christian Schonberger
To: "CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:24 AM
Subject: [CWSG] concert last night (was: Less Expensive Alternative to Vent?)


 
Hi group,
 
Last night I played at an open air gospel concert here in Europe. Here in Portugal it's still hoty summer at this time of the year.
 It's really hard to pullt that off. Six long years of trying to play with a complete live band, US-style, have failed for dozens of reasons.
 
Anyway: a few glitches and mishaps nonwithstanding, it went great. I play my XK-3-system (old XK-3) with Mullard tubes, in a custom made B3 cabinet (I am crazy but it looks killer) and I simply run it through a Vent. I have two inexpensive European "Leslies" (a Solton Twin Yet, and an ELKA-Tone, both from 1982) - both sound great when they work, but mechanical problems and crappy solid state ampification make them non-feasible, even more so on an open air concert where the audience only hears a mic'd Leslie anyway.
 
I have no doubt: the leslie is half of the sound (unless you love the jazzy no-leslie approach with perhaps just a C-3 scanner vibrato setting - please show me a clone who pulls off hat stunt).
 
So we had: a 100-piece choir (only possibke through years of auditions, personel changes and everyone being just a talented amateur), solo vocalists, the front man and singer, me on Hammond clone and as the arranger/MIDI programmer, and a four piece live horn section.
 
All I had to say is that I loved playing my Hammond and sound engineers, wherever I go, won't stop saying: that is the most convincing Hasmmond clone I ever heard.
 
Get a Vent - trust me, it's that good! It even has that creamy Leslie power amp overdrive (If you want it, I go easy when playing gospel music) which never rasps or shows digital artifacts.
 
P.S. please make sure (unless you want it otherwise) to turn the Vent about 45 degrees so the fast/slow switch is pointing at you. So you won't accidentally hit the "bypass" and end up with a "dead" sound in the middel of that killer phrase ;-)
 
To address the "no variety" - issue: I think the variety should be within a convincing Hammond sound. I frkanlly don't care (no offense!!!) about older clones which sound worse than what I can get out of a used twin oscillator analog synth. And: no drawbars? What the heck? Do yo guys want to play Hammond or just use a Hammond patch? Playing a Hammond is a "wrestilng match" with constand drawbar changes. Check some YouTube vids of the gospel Hammond masters (I can't play even 10% of what they can - I have to write it doen and often I lose myself), and you'll see.
 
All the best,
Christian

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