Vox Continental circuit overview and playing demonstration

[RayManzarekGod]

Your runs make me want to just go throw away my Jaguar.

[PAULisDEADMANnumber9]

i want one of these like SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad, what stores would have these?

[RayManzarekGod]

@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 Hey man, check thrift stores, or vitnage music stores, thats your best bet, or ebay or craigslist.

[synthpro]

Great Video, thanks for posting! It looks like it works the same way as a polymoog only a little different layout.  I restored a polymoog and can honestly say that if the vox is anything like the polymoog it is a job to repair.

Thanks again for posting!

[sounddoctorin]

@synthpro Yeah the polymoog in my studio has absorbed at least 30 hours of my life I think :-). I got it for 100 bucks and restoring it was a very time consuming thing even with the service manual in hand. The polymoog only has two vco's and the vox of course has 12 independent oscillators; one for each note. The moog uses a top octave synth chip and then chip dividers instead of discrete transistors. The moog leaves one VCO's 'rank' square and turns the other into sawtooth etc.

[synthpro]

@sounddoctorin My polymoog took me about 3 months. Oh yes, the manual got in my way at some points, but I made it through the restoration. I am sure the Vox is a little easier to repair than what I was thinking. if you have a dead note, you just go to the oscillator that produces that note and check the divider circuit for that key. Very nice.

Thanks.

[Lehearthos]

What is the name if that piece which he starts playing at 3:32? NICE

[sounddoctorin]

That's one of Paul's pieces. Doesn't have a name he said.

[Skaliwag66]

easily one of the finest organists on this site.

[Peacefrog35]

I agree with that! Wow the guy smokes and makes it look effortless. I'd love to be a quarter that good one day.

[Hgclaw]

Wow, Paul's dexterity/accuracy is fantastic! He does certainly know his way around those mixtures.

[dreamomatic]

Damn. I love how Paul works the drawbars. Personally, I like the distorted sound of the first part of the demo. But the Youtube compression could be messing with it. Still, sweet playing.

[sounddoctorin]

The distortion can be achieved by just overdriving the mixer :-). These things have a pretty hot output.

[mewrth]

You've got the light my fire sound right. Unlike others who simply pull all the drawbars out and switch vibrato on

[sounddoctorin]

Sorry youtube's interface is fouled.  I accidentally removed the post that complimented Paul's playing. For those interested Paul played with a really great band years ago. He's just flipping out a few riffs though to demo the instrument. It's not a concert. He didn't do a lot of rehursing to make this video etc. So please appreciate it for what it is; a demo of a classic instrument's sound quality. Thanks.