The Ultimate Hammond B3 Clone Challenge (Sam Paglia)

My question is, which owner of a hammond clone can reproduce this sound? I have heard really good ones like the XK-3 and the Nord Electro 3 / C1. But that crispy attack as you can hear on this fragment of Sam Paglia (track: Chitlin Circuits) I have never heared reproduced by any hammond b3 clone, or even the new digital b3. Or is this beyond the digital possibilities? Please reply your attempt! A Nord Electro 2 owner.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hammond
• nord
• electro
• c1
• xk3
• sam
• paglia
• b3

[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!

[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]

Io voglio che Lei tenga radiodiffusione viva in Giappone

[lawtrip]

whats the name of this song???

[mondialferrari]

new b3 shit, a lot of money in digital bitch