From ljabaa@yahoo.com Fri Apr 26 04:54:17 2013
Subject:Re: clone comparison

Ken/MRK,
Have to do some more thinking/waiting. The SK1 has the chorus issues, and the Numa has the quality control issues. Also wish the Numa had a few tweakable features like volume of the percussion and a few leslie adjustments. Still wish the Crumar put out a single manual version of the Mojo. I may start looking at the Nord stuff too. Or I might keep the CX3 and buy a Vent. Thanks for your input.
Leo


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From: "MRK7421@aol.com"
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:23 PM
Subject: [CWSG] Re: clone comparison


 

I am absolutely in agreement with Ken's assesment of the chorus vibrato
in the Hammond SK1 and 2 . I often use chorus vibrato and nothing else, and
the chorus in the the SK1 leaves me shaking my head wondering why Hammond
Suzuki doesn't seem to get it.

Perhaps if you use chorus and slow spin chorale at the same time or
something you could get away with this, but I hear that squirelly quality every
time I hear Hammond Suzuki. More so than Nord, Roland, Crumar or anything
with a Key B engine.

I have had reasonably good luck with the service people at American Music
and Sound , who handle Nord and Kurzweil as well as Studiologic. Then only
issue I have had with a Numa was when some idiot ( a member of a "major" bay
area blues act) dumped a drink into my first one on a rental.

Fortunately I had a pro protection warranty from Musician's Friend on this
unit and I now have a Numa that has had no issues in over a year.

I switched my sound sample to the A 100 on my Numa. It has a much more
singing quality to the upper register in my opinion. In fact, I preferred it to
a VB3 rig I hear recently.

I still like the Numa quite a bit after all this time. I get what I want
out of it. Amplify it well and everything is cool.

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