From jackoverfull@gmail.com Mon Jun 30 11:42:36 2014
Subject:Re: For those who feel that clones are better than the real thing...

Pedal? You mean bass pedals?

If you need a two octave (now also one and half, going up to F!)
radial one I can absolutely recommend Elvio's (maker of keyb). Works
well with any clone (well, surely on keybs, crumars and nords, haven't
tried on others but should do well as it's basically a keyboard on
midi channel 3). Not sure if theywould fit well under your
"frankenclone" of course.

Only serious alternative I had found at the time I wanted to buy one
(almost two years ago) was a midi pedalboard done by viscount (or was
it oberheim?). It costed a bit less than elvio's (100/200€ less) but
weighted over 30kg. Went Elvio's (13kg…maybe less actually!) and am
quite happy with it, use it with my mojo all the time.

If you're ok with a non radial one octave or one octave and half one
there are several alternatives, including from nord, crumar of fatar…
I'll have to stand aside as I'm not well versed in the details here (I
absolutely wanted a radial setup).

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Il giorno 30/giu/2014, alle ore 20.09, "Mike Fresnel fredjenkins@earthlink.net
[CloneWheel]" ha scritto:

> This strikes a chord with me -
>
> I have a chop, a real B3 and a Frankenstein clone. I work
> infrequently on the chop in hopes
> of getting it out to a gig, I play the real B3 on a weekly basis at
> rehearsals, and on the gig I
> take the Frankenstein (Fatar Keyboards in a plywood cab (not by me)
> modified beyond recognition
> (by me) running into a Nord Electro Rack with some etc. for real
> sound. The Frankenstein system
> gets very nice reviews by sidemen who also remark incredulity at how
> much better the real
> B3 sounds when we do the last tune of the (rehearsal) evening on the
> real deal.
>
> At present all my non-practice effort is going into making the
> Frankenstein system truly
> "one trip to the car" (metal work in aluminum can be sublime...).
> Every solution I've
> come up with for getting the real B3 to a gig involves an enclosed
> trailer, 20 mins of flashers
> going double parked and infinite paranoia of damage to glue joints
> -- all for inviting
> swine to enjoy pearls (not the band - they get the real deal at
> rehearsal).
> That's not even considering the hernia opportunity...
>
> So bottom line I guess is it's joyous to have the real deal (truly
> inspirational each and every time),
> and it's joyous to have the clone to wander about with.
> Still have to address the whole pedal issue...
>
> Regards,
> m
>
> ps - nothing at all against the real or audience manifestation of
> swine - I like them both but
> they are understandably not very discerning.
>