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Mitch Towne

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  1. Guido’s C3 chorus was dead on from the start. One of the reasons I stuck with the Mojo for so long.
  2. It often involves canabalizing other keyboards.
  3. I’m the king of switching springs. Just ask my keyboard tech. He’s put a kid through college thanks to my obsessive nature.
  4. I’d pay good money to just sit and call out tunes and let Greg play the hell out of them.
  5. I can tell you from experience that The MAG is better quality in every way than the UHL.
  6. If there was any justice left, this would be one of the biggest acts in the world.
  7. Such language! Kids read this forum, you know!
  8. The only thing that will fix the missing tones is a busbar lube job and that can and should only be done by a trained professional technician.
  9. My first synth was a Casio CZ-101 that I bought after I was rear-ended in traffic in my 1972 Honda Civic. My choice was to fix the bumper on a car that was already beat to hell, or take the money and buy a synth. Easy choice. I just recently bought one on Reverb!
  10. The Hammond organ, by its very nature, is a very unforgiving instrument. You have to control the volume with a pedal and you have zero touch sensitivity. I think a lot of organ players gravitate towards chorale because it “softens” the attack somewhat and it is far more forgiving when it comes to making your lines sound in time. With chorale, however, you sacrifice a strong, direct sound. It’s all a little washy. That’s what jazz greats like Joey D, Jimmy Smith, etc. most often played with the Leslie on “stop.” Your lines cut through much better - more like a horn player. It takes a lot of practice to sound good with the Leslie on “stop.”
  11. Mini-Vent into the MAGGIE. I’m not really a huge fan of the Vent. Been using the internal sim with my Motion Sound amp as of late.
  12. MAG organ running through the MAGGIE speaker.
  13. Mulgrew is an incredibly underrated player. One of the modern greats.
  14. There are people on this forum who turn their nose at Joey DeFrancesco and Hiromi, so you’re never going to find a player whose name isn’t “Emerson” or “Wakeman” or “Hancock” that is going to get universal love.
  15. God, I love Tain! He and Kenny Kirkland could change the rotation of the Earth when they played together!
  16. But I never get an uncomfortable feeling from Stewart. Palmer never settles into a pocket and his drum solo section on “Karn Evil” sounds as if he was being chased by a knife wielding Keith.
  17. Chester is another animal all together!! He brings more gospel to the table than other jazz organists. You play a lot more off the bass on the pedals when you play gospel organ. Joey and Chester are my two biggest influences. I love their playing so much.
  18. Yes. That’s correct. The tapping of the pedal adds an attack to the note which helps the bass line pop more, similar to the attack of an acoustic bass. But using an acoustic bass sample is a whole other thing. Organ bass and upright bass sound totally different. And when you’re playing a sample on an instrument that’s not that instrument (for example, an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard), it’s going to end up sounding weird.
  19. I wish Barbara didn’t use MIDI pedals with an acoustic bass sound. I think that’s a bit cheesy. But, hey, it’s her choice.
  20. BTW, Joey was maybe 25 or 26 when this video was recorded.
  21. I’m practicing the secret handshake!
  22. I just read that thread. Wow. I get it now! 😂
  23. This clip is from Joey’s first instructional VHS tape from the mid-late 90s. This video quite literally taught me how to play the organ. Watching him was a revelation and, to this day, my bass lines implement the “walk up to the 6th” method he demonstrates. To third or fourth what others have said, jazz organ bass is majority LH with foot thrown in for emphasis. In this very same instructional video, Joey specifically states this, then demonstrates that he can definitely play them. He then points out that for up tempo tunes, playing all the bass on the pedals just doesn’t swing the same.
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