I have followed your Channel and site for years and years. It has made me decide on Roland's and Kurzweil's throughout my career, and now getting a full-blown Hammond XK3C video is as awesome as it gets. As an owner of a great XK5, this video throws me back to the music store years ago trying for the first time the XK3C and it's really thrilling. Keep up the fantastic work, please.
Fantastic demo with some great sounds! The organ emulations sound really good. One thing I have to ask though as someone who has played both the modern recreations and the vintage units - personally I find that I get much more into playing the vintage units, because they just seem to provide more interaction and random inconsistencies somehow - do you find the same thing?
Thanks! Yeah, I've had a real 1968 Hammond C-3 for many years and there's nothing at the moment than can fully give that feel of playing the real tone-wheel instrument - but manufacturers are getting closer every year!
I have no preferred preset. It mainly depends on the music style. I will prefer different presets if I play a John Lord's track or some JS Bach adagios.
The Theatre Organ presets were a lie! In your Jupiter 80 single sounds video, as soon as you got to a theatre organ, it was like, "THAT'S a theater organ!" and a big smile because it's corny but it's such a great and nostalgic sound. These ones, maybe dinner theater. I didn't expect it to have ANY such presets, so I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I also thought 013 was nuts - you did what you could for such a clicky preset, but I think Hammond was trolling everyone with the extreme setting on lucky number 013. 012 and 014 were great😅 for real, so IDK. I'm guessing there's a song for that, but that the preset is an OTT version. I also didn't like the heavily overdriven rock organs as much as some others. Other than those few timbres, I thought it sounded really good! I love ridiculous stereo fields, so I'd probably keep the chorus on at all times even though God would punish me for that, I'm assuming. I tend to layer differently pitched copies of my organ tracks together, just to change their tone color and get weird phasey stereo field effects, so I don't care about how accurate a B3 sound is... and I don't think I'd spend the money for one of these, for my purposes. I'm more likely to pick up a used Numa 2x, but my organ needs are more about "as light and low profile as possible" at the moment. Oh well. Nice demo, anyway. I always know you're going to play something good, that fits the instrument, and give a good idea what it actually sounds like.
Adam, #13 is the "squabble" sound (drawbars in position 800008888 ). You can see Jimmy Smith using the squabbling technique here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jekcuk8tYOk.html It's one of the standard sounds used in Hammond organ playing.
I have one, non gigged with the similar legs and legs case bag with a very clean 145 Leslie with jack input, and USA quiet solid state switching if wanted. March ‘24.
