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#1689697 - 08/19/05 10:50 PM

An Idea. (FWIW)

Jon Doe
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Maybe a future "how to" article?

This thread in KC... I bet you'd get a lot of appeciative reader responses...

jon

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#1689698 - 08/26/05 01:06 PM

Re: An Idea. (FWIW)

Ernie Rideout
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Thanks, Jon! This link is for your Rosetta Stone idea, yes? Please tell us a bit more about what you'd like such a piece to accomplish?

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#1689699 - 08/26/05 05:14 PM

Re: An Idea. (FWIW)

Jon Doe
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Thanks, Ernie.

One of the things I've noticed about the Clonewheels is that there seems to be a gap in our understanding of how these instrument are designed and how they are to be utilized.

I'll speak from my own experience. I have a Hammond C2 with a Trek II percussion kit and a leslie with a 122 amp in it. I also have a Roland V-Combo with a KC-550.

For the longest time I could never get the V-Combo to sound even close to the Hammond even though I tweaked all of the panel settings.

Finally I got fed up with it and decided to take an analytical approach to the problem. I listed all the components on the Hammond that influence it's sound and beside those items I listed the Parameters from the Roland that I guessed were their equivalents.

To make a long story short, I found that the default settings on the Roland were way off from a vintage Hammond like mine (for instance, one default is zero tonewheel leakage), and spent an entire Saturday working with the various parameters until I got the Roland to sound like my Hammond.

For me this has become fairly straight forward now because I can compare the two instruments side by side. But What about those who own a clonewheel and have nothing to compare it against?

Maybe if we had some R&D around how to get your clonewheel to sound like the real thing it could help demystify them a little. For instance, "How do I make my XYZ Clonewheel sound like a 1959 B3 with a Leslie 147?". One thing I have found out is that contrary to what I thought for a long time, mine actually can sound like any variation of B3/Leslie that I want it to.

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