Delaware Dave

Read this: https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/gain-staging/

Lately ....... PC3 over a Forte 7. PC3 triggers a Gemini module. This essentially gives me two Fortes since the Gemini sounds are similar to the Forte but the PC3 is semi-weighted while the Forte is weighted. Compliment each other nicely.

Apparently there are different splitter adapters, some are made to feed headphones and some are made to carry a signal to an "aux in" cable or to a mixer. Physically they look identical, so you're at the mercy of the descripter on the package to understand what is being purchased.

From what i remember it takes a 10 db increase in power to produce a 3db increase in perceived volume. 30 db in loudness is twice the perceived loudness as 27 db. Pianoman51's post above FTW .... In order to achieve the 3db increase in loudness it takes 10x the power (given no other variables are changing) to achieve the 3db increase in perceived loudness.

I tried the tall and fat to tame some shrillness with a hammond clone. No dice, so i sold the t&f.

Who's left from the original band, Jaimoe? Sucks getting old .....

The past few shows over the course of 6 weeks i've been using both the Vent and the BURN w/ KB3 (dry) of the PC3 and the Forte. With the right tweaks to the organ section the combinations work. Two uncorrectable things are the C/V itself (the chorus is horrible) and that the percussion routes through the C/V rather than around the C/V. Mitigation is that I use C1 and turn off C/V when engaging percussion. Also, if you turn off C/V when engaging the internal leslie in fast speed it sounds much less phasier than when C/V is engaged. Below is a link to a double leslie that i worked on 10 years ago. Its much improved over anything delivered within either the PC3 or the Forte. It is a double leslie that will consume 14 of the available 16 DSP units of the PC3. https://forums.godlike.com.au/index.php?topic=3861.msg31597#msg31597 Bill Whitney created a single leslie that is available here. I'd also try this as an alternative. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/yM7zSGNSsXuKHDde/?mibextid=oFDknk

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As I mentioned in my opening post that when I plug in the old adapter into the new phone a message comes up on my new phone screen that the adapter is not compatible with the phone.

Until about 2 months ago I used an old android Motorola phone. In the car I used an adapter to both charge the unit and 1/8” out to the aux input of my car stereo to listen to music (my car doesn’t have bluetooth). It worked nicely, here is the adapter: That phone died so I purchased a Samsung Android phone. I purchased the recommended splitter for it, wanting to do the same thing, i.e. charge the phone and play music through the aux in of my car stereo. The problem is that: 1) can’t do both at the same time, when the USBC is connected to a charger I hear static through the radio’s Aux In (and no music). With the USBC disconnected and only the 1/8” being used and plugged into the aux in of the stereo, I get no sound. 2) If I plug headphones into the 1/8” outlet of the splitter it works perfectly (but still doesn’t work with the USBC also plugged in). So, I can’t use both the USBc and the headphone adapter at the same time, and the headphone adapter only works with headphones and NOT when I patch the 1/8” female of the splitter into the car stereo’s 1/8” input. The patch cord I use from the splitter into the car stereo is good, it works with other hookups, so it has something to do with the adapter I purchased. What I don’t understand is why my old phone and its adapter took a charge and played through the 1/8” simultaneously and this adapter will either charge and not play audio at the same time OR with the charger removed play through headphones (but not through a mixer type input). Any guidance as to what adapter types are needed to both charge the phone and connect the 1/8” to the aux in of my car stereo? The old adapter is not compatible with the new phone, I get a message on my phone telling me this when I plug in the adapter. Here is a pic of the new adapter:

Justice has now been served......... He was ordered to pay $33 million, how is it that 30 years later not a dime has been paid? Why would a prosecutor bother going to court if at the end of the day the defendant says ... "screw the decision I'm not paying". How is that justice? Where's the legal system in freezing his accounts, forcing the payments to be made? He had money to play golf then he had money toward the $33 million. Hope he saved enough money for an air conditioner cause he's going to need one now.....

Here's my theory on this: Crumar offers basic features where others offer more. I believe this allows them to then keep the price down. A couple examples: No dedicated organ out of the Gemini module nor the Mojo; no 11 pin for an external leslie. They offer an 11 pin accessory sold separately; mojo is mono timbral so although they offer non organ sounds they cant be played simultaneously; one set of drawbars rather than two, you can purchase a 2nd set of drawbars as an accessory if you really need them. This makes sense to me, why pay a markup on a keyboard for features you may not ever use. So if you later want to use an 11 pin leslie then buy the accessory but why pay for an accessory that you don't need? This has been my unsubstantiated theory on their lower than typical price points. As far as quality I believe they have switched parts suppliers and since doing that their 'complaints' have substantially decreased. I had big issues with the gemini module, when the new internal boards were received they had to be retrofitted into the unit. The new boards came from a new supplier and .... not one single problem since the new parts were installed a few years ago.

This ... Even my Voce V5+ sounds awesome through a Vent. Have you considered a midi module like a Viscount, Voce, Mojo Desktop, HX3 module that you can pair with the Vent and the controller of your choice?

I think the intention of the product is for people who want a good hammond emulation but only use the sound occassionally and dont want to add a larger, heavier additional keyboard to achieve it. Also for people who use public transportation and need something lightweight. I actually think that it is a smart offering; they missed the price point as they always do. Hammond seems to think that they can command a premium price on everything they sell, the Cadillac brand if you will. Pedals, benches, lower manuals, leslies, everything is priced at a premium. The problem is that their line of products are not head and shoulders above the rest of the market. This keyboard should have been priced at $600-700 It is currently listed at sweetwater for $1295. The Crumar Mojo is currently listed at Thomanns for $1185. A full manual of keys (61 vs. 49), splittable, lower manual available, highly adjustable, new Yamaha CFX piano, rhodes, wurli and clav. 25 pounds isnt a back breaker. The advantage of the M Solo is the size and weight. Pricepoint makes little sense to me.