From dan.for@tiscali.cz Mon Feb 17 22:17:42 2014
Subject:Re: software vs. hardware

Christian, please... This was not at all anything personal and against
you. If you think so, please accept my apology, it was not my
intention to offend you. I don't know you and your performance, so how
could I judge it? It was just general remark. I'm quite sure I can
learn something about the gospel from you.

I believe everybody's opinion has the same value, because when not
just copied from somewhere, it's based on some personal experience.
Everybody has some good reason for his/her opinion.

So here is just my opinion about your example: I don't think this is
the best way how to evaluate the sound of organ.

Hammond sound is a living complex phenomenon, and it's important part
except purely technical things (like TG capacitors, tubes/transistors,
keyboard contacts, click, amp distortion, frequency range, scanner,
reverb, total setting and condition of concrete organ and connected
Leslie, non equal temperament) is also music - chord voicing,
articulation, initial attack and touch, phrasing, note repetition,
work with drawbars, presets, manuals, vibrato, percussion, Leslie
speed, expression pedal, noises, clusters, pentatonic/diatonic/
chromatic glissandos, palm smears, pedal keyboard... and maybe more.

How we can recognize any quality from the static sustained chord? You
know very well that living music performed usually on Hammond organ
doesn't look like this.

Besides still there are many different sounds we can get from Hammond,
and different music styles use specific sounds. Here the quality of
player and his experience is the key word. Gospel player has different
voicing and tricks than hard-rock or jazz player...

And let's not forget everything also depends on personal preferences,
additionally.

Daniel Forro

On 18 Feb, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Christian Schonberger wrote: