From frederick.somerville@gmail.com Wed Mar 06 06:53:18 2013
Subject:Re: Nord C2D hum

I just recorded an A100 that has quite a bit of HUM all over.

My 1937 Hammond BC has some low level leakage in some of the higher tones
in TG.
This is what you get in any Hammond to varying amounts of levels. Every
Hammond will be slightly different.

I set my Nord C2d to V3 and accept is as the indifidual as it is.

2013/3/6 Bruce Wahler

> **
>
> Randy,
>
> We just had a similar discussion on the NordElectro group about this
> 'feature'. The newer Nord organs have four settings. Here were the
> comments that I made:
>
> I tried some more tests last night, and I learned something
> interesting: the changes are *much* easier to hear with C3 vibrato
> on. (I was doing most of my earlier testing without vibrato.) So,
> a fair amount of the change seems to be in the vibrato scanner area
> -- or at least, the treble boost of the chorus vibrato makes it
> stand out more. It's still kind of subtle compared to the range
> that Korg and Roland clones offer, but if I had to categorize the sound:
>
> CL = near perfect sine-wave with little or no noise
> V1 = subtle (and pleasant) overtones added
> V2 = crosstalk noise added, more prominent with chorus vibrato's
> treble boost
> V3 = even more crosstalk, TG ground noise added on some outputs
>
> I actually find I like the crosstalk noise; it reminds me of Mark
> Stein's B-3 on the first Vanilla Fudge album. In fact, if I could
> choose a 'V2.5' that had V3's crosstalk without the TG hum, I think
> it would be my favorite.
>
> The "TG ground noise" that I mentioned is most prominent on G-G#-A of
> the middle octave and the one above it. This seems to be a
> 'warts-and-all' tendency of Clavia emulations. Many of their piano
> samples have 1-2 'clunker' notes sampled without any touch-up
> afterward. Some people like that unique character in the sample set,
> but some of these artifacts bother me. If I owned a real B-3 with that
> much hum in an area of the tone generator, I think I would get it
> fixed. So, I dropped down to the V2 setting.
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> Bruce Wahler
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>
> On 3/5/2013 11:02 PM, randyatthelake@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I've noticed on a used C2D I bought that it has an odd little hum