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The chorus and phaser effects are key. As usual the demos aren’t very well done. So if H-S could just send me an M-Solo I’ll dial up the effects and record a single held chord and we can rejoice in the phat and lush sound of a Solina. Or not. Happy to take any requests from Shine on You Crazy Diamond or Dogs. And done. 😀

This. Took me some time to work my SKpro into my rig, swapped the B3 model out for the A100, lowered the crossover to edit the overdrive, changed the Leslie option, spread the mic angle, adjusted the tremolo speeds, adjusted the key click etc., i.e. tweaked pretty much everything. So yeh give me a software editor please.

There's some 10 official videos up: lots of organ plus some ensemble voices, string machine, bass synth. I'm in a Pink Floyd tribute and a 4-octave Hammond/string machine should be right in my wheelhouse. Sad to report I found them all underwhelming, ymmv.

MTWII is later, better. Colour me interested.

I can’t imagine you’ll get any argument about that, especially for a drummer, iirc Sting said the same thing of Stewart Copeland. I was in a funk band years ago that fired a drummer for committing the same sin.

I’m tempted to start a thread on reviews that got it so wrong: I came across this recently, it’s um … interesting reading: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/wish-you-were-here-3-96417/ Actually i just reread it, totally wtf gobsmacking stuff. Standout comments include: ‘The illusion of complexity that caused their drooling legions to make wild claims of high-art accomplishment was actually nothing more than the skillful manipulation of elements so simple — the basic three chords everyone else uses — that any collection of bar hacks could grind out a note-for-note reproduction without difficulty’ and ‘The cardinal offender is David Gilmour, by most counts the most technically efficient. No championship guitarist, he nonetheless had enough intelligent ideas [in Dark Side of the Moon] to maintain the group’s ultraimportant link to the bedrock demands of their mass audience. He oversteps his bounds in several places on Wish You Were Here, however, indulging in protracted solos that present him as just another competent guitarist who thinks with his fingers instead of his head.’

i think the confusion here is between ‘playing the ball’ and ‘playing the man’, in the case of the LD thread, between ‘I don’t like his vocal’ and ‘He can’t sing.’ The former is fine, the latter amounts to an ad hominem attack. Playing the man not the ball gets you a foul. We could choose our words more carefully.

Yes, but I might be asked to sub for the other team or even join them if they lose their keys player, unless they're just too f#^*ing loud or known to be high maintenance I'm not gonna burn bridges.

This guy sacrificed a promising career in plumbing to play piano with the likes of Jimmy Witherspoon and Nat Adderley as well as Australia's finest.

if it’s too loud for you it’s probably in part cause they’ve lost some of their hearing. I gig with a bass player who has lost a good deal of his hearing and turns up accordingly so he can hear himself. It’s gotten worse over the years and i now refuse to set up on his side of stage. If he gets any louder I’m out.

sorry i was light on info. I’m in mono, and everything from a Santana tribute to a soul jazz trio. For me Roland (owned a VR-09) is more ballsey but the top drawbars aren’t right and the rotary is chorusy/phasey syrup. The updated YC (owned one) rotary is still squirrelly with the top drawbars out. I’ve never heard Kurz (played and listened to a PC4) sound convincing either on the drawbar or rotary front but maybe tweaking can get you there. And i agree with Jim Alfredson’s statement about Nord’s clonewheel (briefly owned an Electro 5 and have heard Nords live more than a few times) it sounds like a synthesist’s idea of a Hammond, there’s something lifeless about it that just doesn’t remind me at all of a real wheezing spitting tonewheel monster, and I’d say the same of their pipe organ model, it sounds so lifeless to me. For those reasons I find none of them serviceable cause there’s something that will annoy me while I’m trying to focus on playing. Hope that helps explain a bit, and sure everyone is welcome to disagree 😀

I picked up a 61. Initial thoughts: Key action is similar to but better than that on the YC61 I had for a time. The initial weight hill isn't so much to climb, still pretty good for pianos, but also much better for Hammond playing: I can machine gun on it no worries. I like it, it doesn't get in the way and yet facilitates expression better than most synth-style actions. I generally like Yamaha pianos but these sound a bit thin. The distortion dirties up the wurli samples nicely. The Hammond is imo quite serviceable: I reckon I could get through a Hammond-centric gig without any embarrassment. I pull a drawbar combination and ramp up the rotary and get pretty much what I expect. No it's not in the same league as a Mojo/SKpro/HX3/Mag, but I don't find myself feeling there's something wrong with it (so for me better than Roland, Nord, Kurz or the Yamaha YC). The rotary effects are both better than that on the Reface, not sure if one is the same as that in the updated YC but I find the interaction between the drawbars, the rotary effect and the drive is more satisfying than on either the YC or the Reface. Cutoff AND resonance & attack AND release with their own knobs on the top panel is so much better than the wtf combo arrangement on the YC. Very easy to tweak things to what you want on the fly. Much easier to see at a glance what I need to tweak compared to the YC which always made me stop to think for a bit with the layout and colour scheme (or lack thereof). Haven't needed the manual yet. Such a turnaround from Yamaha's typical 'you can save one button press to complete a process compared to other companies' board's if you'd just rewire your brain to think like we want you to' approach. Very lightweight, I might need to velcro it to the stand so I don't send it flying with a palm swipe. Crazy good for the money. I think it'd easily win a poor man's Nord award. Except that I prefer it to Nord's Electro and Stage offerings 😮. I can definitely see why it's selling like hotcakes.

started a new topic, thanks to Old No7 for the OP

With thanks to Old No.7, who wrote: “I'm really impressed with how he sculpts the sound of his Hammond solo on this rendering of "Gimme Some Lovin" by using the drawbars OFTEN. I dare say... He uses the drawbars in that one solo MORE than some Hammond players will in one gig!” So I’m looking for examples of Hammond solos that make use of the drawbars to build the solo. Thx.

I think it’s interesting that the OP posted the video to comment specifically about the use Lachy makes of the drawbars in building the solo. And on a forum full of Hammond snobs (me included) no one has said anything at all about that. Instead we’ve had style over substance statements comparing him dismissively to players of other genres who never touched the drawbars except between choruses. Maybe if the title of the thread had been something about building a solo by riding the drawbars, with Lachy’s video as an example rather than as the subject, we’d have had a very different discussion. So maybe we could return the topic to the original matter at hand. I’d actually be really interested to see some Hammond solos that involve riding the drawbars. I’ll start by mentioning John Medeski, any track you like. Edit: actually I’ll just start a new topic

Yes it's short for Lachlan, the a is pronounced as in yacht, or as the o in lock.

This is phenomenal. I've seen a few versions and others tend to lose a fraction of time jumping across larger intervals with their left foot, this guy nails it (warning, the following video contains Tatum-like technique on organ pedals and may cause you to just give up now, lol): https://www.facebook.com/timur.khaliullin.313/videos/1743845679178159

Ok. So that takes out pretty much every rock organist except John Paul Jones and Steve Winwood, and then some: Booker T, Gregg Allman, John Medeski, come to think of it iirc Larry Goldings doesn't play pedals, or not much - someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to recall him stating as much in a tutorial video. Maybe the criteria should be two feet, heel and toe, or you're out. I kinda get this, it's heading into theatre organ territory, but then the jazzers' tap the pedals lightly thing - could be Bb, could be doubling the whole LH line - was in an effort to add the attack to the front end of the left hand notes so that it sounded more like an acoustic bass. Or is this a myth?

The studio version (technically live in the studio, there's more than a few live concert versions on Youtube), he's in better voice and the Hammond's the real deal, but if you don't like his playing or his showmanship there's nothing to see here. Lachy's been invited to play with Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa & Mike Portnoy and I'm pretty sure they chose him for his musicianship. Afaik he's the only guy currently carving out a full-time career leading a Hammond-driven power trio.

This vid has the transcription:

Most of the audience listens with their eyes (we musicians are the exception). The rest follows. Does the band look like they're having fun? Do they look like they enjoy playing together? Does the singer look like s/he's here singing for me?

yeh I’m pretty sure Lachy would agree with you on the overdrive, I had a conversation with him at a gig where he had to use an XK-3, he’s not a fan of clones but sometimes he’s gotta use one to play the gig. Agree the vocal isn’t one of his best, made worse as he’s stepping into Winwood’s shoes, It’s really not in his wheelhouse and as such not a great choice imo

I found the Nord 'Black (Petrof) Upright' the best of their offerings when I briefly owned a red keyboard.

I have an SX7 and like most here I've downloaded some good sounds from their website, it is very easy to do, and I have a set of my own samples loaded in after converting them to soundfonts (via Polyphone, which is also very easy to use). The process is a doddle, and I'm not IT savvy either.