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Sad news. GG was king in my prog rock pantheon.

The organ plays till midnight!

Welcome back!

To put Steve's point in perspective: I think some of us older players feel a bit like we are the last generation of organists, and it becomes our duty to try to pass on what we have learned by encouraging newer players to spend a bit of time at it. With the instrument disappearing from pop and other modern music, players might use organ only occasionally. I have great love for Hammond and it is my preferred instrument. I mourn its decline. Thank goodness for gospel!

I loved my S-90 with VL board and breath controller. I could actually play a solo sax sound without hanging my head in shame.

Besides this: The lower 3 drawbars are the power drawbars the upper 3 are the sizzle the middle 3 are the spice Spend some time holding a single note and pulling drawbars one at a time to train your ear to the various pitch relationships. Drawbars are color coded and assigned numbers relating to pipe organ terminology relating to length of the largest pipe in the group. 8' stops sound at concert pitch, 16' an octave below, 4' an octave above, etc. Later Hammond models had these numbers engraved on the drawbars, earlier ones did not. White drawbars sound the concert pitch note and its octaves. Black drawbars sound the fifth and its octaves (except for one which sounds the third.) Farthest left drawbar is the sub octave. Playing chords with this pulled can get muddy if you are playing them around middle C (which is the 3rd C from the left on a 5 octave organ with the first white drawbar (8') pulled out.) So when playing chord pads you may find it more pleasing to play in the next octave than you would on a piano. 2nd brown drawbar sounds a fifth above the 8' which is not a natural harmonic but is considered the rock and roll drawbar. 2nd black drawbar from the right is the Sporty Spice of drawbars, sounding the 3rd 2 octaves above.

Of course. Just Svengle "hammond drawbar settings." This is the paragraph where I encourage you to experiment with the drawbars yourself. I can give a 5 minute drawbar talk to a newbie if we have an organ in person to demonstrate with. It's not that hard!

It would require making a new hole in the metal chassis for the new plug (avoiding spraying metal fragments inside), mounting the power supply securely inside, and resoldering to the plug. Only you can judge if you could do it yourself. It's a mod I have considered doing myself, but I don't gig anymore and I'm lazy.

Rhodes Chroma. I only know of a one off project that is not commercially available.

My early Mojo is still going strong.

FWIW I find Cherry's PS20 to be a very character-ful, ballsy, and great sounding instrument. I've had large fun with it. The new PS 3300 should be a similar wow.

E-MU modulars I have known:

I always heard they were divide down.

My favorite ever modular synth. I hope Dave R is getting a cut of these remakes. Nice to see some of the old modules keep their discrete transistor core, even with the sourcing challenges he mentioned. I'm not crazy about his new Curtis based VCOs as the original discrete ones were stunning. I never owned the UAF but the studio system I worked on had one and it was truly special. They were a space hog but the layout of inputs to the left, outputs to the right, and control inputs on the bottom was logical and great to work on.

Closest I got to one was my Polyfusion catalog, which I still have to this day.

My XK1-C had a metal panel. It had the rock and roll dent in it to prove it.

"Authentic Digital Leslie" LOL 😆

Might have to update my long running sig.

Both. I got used to the Vent back when the native sim was close but not quite as good. Now they are pretty equivalent and I have had no hesitation going Vent-less when I travel light and don't drag my pedal board around. BTW Vent overdrive plays nicely with the Mojo overdrive. Vent is set on medium warm OD, and Mojo knob used for when I want it heavier.

Even Pat M was embarassed later over going ham on Kenny G.

Mojo got an improved lighter action a few years ago. Is it possible the lower manual is a few years old?

Try Dmaj7 to Amaj9. In other words play C# instead of C in your second chord.

We encountered him on the road in 1980. He was completely gracious and charming. He stayed over an extra night in the hotel to catch our band's set and hung out at the sound board with my wife.

Did not know that. That JCS album rocked.

Start your yacht rock education with this errr "documentary" series.