The Ultimate Hammond B3 Clone Challenge (Sam Paglia)

[alexhawk79]

u mean key click? i can do this on my NE3

[paulj0557]

I can tell within a short time by listening to that key click. Yes, a good organ player doesn't smack the keys like buttons, and unlike a piano technique the organ player keeps notes held down while lifting fingers to press other keys. It's the nature of this technique that often makes landing the next note a less abrupt ( button like) motion so each click has it's own little cadence based on the 9 contacts that each key press has to go through until the key hits bottom. I hear 'old' electrons

[EddieLandsberg]

Sam has the key click way up on this (that's the crunchyness)... The Leslie sounds very well mic'd... and I know that he's an incredible player so he plays the organ so it sounds like an organ (some players can't do this...) Bass is nicely compressed. I'm including a video link of me playing a Nord C1 live... Considering the situation (not professionally recorded, not playing pedal augmentations, not mastered, bad room acoustics) I think its incredible...

[hugleberthumperdink]

When im back chez ill give the Nord C2 a crack on this. the C2 is the shit. aside from the grandaddy, the godfather, and king of all: the B3.

[tvseal0001]

I'm a NE2 owner myself...I think the closest we can get to that is to turn up the overdrive somewhat and also the key click up to 8 or 9. Try with the leslie in stop mode/slow mode. Try with setting 888000000

[lashknife01]

Dont wanna spoil the party too much but, the origional could have been recorded onto tape, an older microphone with a older mic pre-amp could've been used and the engineer could've used an analogue compressor. All of these things will change the sound, If you out a good clonewheel going through a good tube amp/leslie at the start of the same signal chain, then I reckon you wouldnt be able to hear the difference.

[footballistaJ]

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[lawtrip]

whats the name of this song???

[mondialferrari]

new b3 shit, a lot of money in digital bitch

[kennerskeus]

By a real Hammond, the new B3 is great and the sound with the overdrive is exactly like your sound file.

[OrganusMaximus]

Hey, the C1 sounds just great through anything. Even my Peavey KB/A300. You can be too purist you know. For me practicality prevails.

But, I must admit, through my 147 she really screams !!!

[oerwouter]

Thanks for responding guys. It seems to be a matter of amplification indeed. Pontus' videoresponse proves you can get pretty close with a C1, check it out!

[kaufmann6988]

No problem with the C1. Use a good tube pre-amp. I use an old Hughes&Kettner Crunch Master (Blues Master) en then hook it up to a Leslie or whatever you like. It's all about amplification !

[rounder2u]

Hi oerwouter

I think you're into it when you write 'Or is this beyond the digital possibilities?'

From what I hear here I believe it's the tube distortion that makes the sound. Route the clean signal from a high quality clonewheel through overdriven preamp tubes, then to overdriven power amp tubes and I believe the nice old dirty B-3/C-3/A-100 sound will be there.

I'd love to connect my C1 to an overdriven all-tube old Leslie :-)

At least a tube pre-amp is a must.

Keep swinging,

Rounder