I am a lover of the Hammond sound and the Hammond organ. All my life I have played on Hammond organs, real ones from the L100 in my late years, the 70s, to the B3, a magical incredible organ without competition. I also earned my salary thanks to the Hammond organ, and I have never once been unfaithful to the Hammond brand and Leslie cabin. That said, in the 70s, the Italians were already starting to copy the organ Hammond with a not too bad approach (PARIS organs) then Crumar who today, we must recognize that the MOJO is an almost perfect copy of the legendary B3. I admit to being impressed by this VISCOUNT, a stunning brand!
I left a 2nd comment just a few minutes after the one above yesterday, but it's not showing now. It was about the Brian Auger interview. Did you see that comment? It appears it was deleted somehow. It did not have any links in that comment. Not sure why it was deleted. ??
Yes, the UAD plugin is by far the best rotary plugin I’ve ever heard. Haven’t found a way to use it with low latency though. Too bad they didn’t make it available for native use.
I just got the Legend Soul 261 in. Wow, what a fantastic Hammond like tone! Hooked up to my Leslie 145 and bang that Hammond sound and more. Also sounds great with my MIDI foot bass. This is a winner. You need to get one everyone!
Leslie 142's are very hard to come by here in the states! Would love to try one, but for now the 145 will do, mine has the Atlas Sound PD--VH horn and a JBL bass speaker since I play foot bass, had the amp reworked.@@frankmontis
@@frankmontis Just came in. It is small. Has a nice horn driver and a 15" neo bass speaker, a fan inside. Very tweakable, foot bass notes are weak on the lower end, no subwoofer output. Does sound pretty good. Different from the Leslie 3300 tone wise. You know you can get a 11 pin to 6 pin adaptor from Leslie or Hammond for your 142 to use with your XK5 or you Soul 261.
Great and very soulful organ playing, as always! Two small questions: 1) Does the C3-vibrato really sound that good 'right out of the box'? 2) Are the key springs lighter than on the original Viscount Legend? Thanks in advance for you reply :-)
I think the vibrato sounds this good out of the box yes although I did tweak a lot of other things to get the sound I like. I never played the original so I can’t say, but I do think it is pretty light yes and my guess is that it’s lighter than the original based on what I’ve read.
I love your playing Frank and I have been watching your videos for years. If you were to buy a clone would it be a crumar mojo or the viscount? Keep up the amazing work you are doing because there are many of us out here who love your work!
Yeah, I had the SKs Pro, was to complicated to operate,sold it.. Also found a Hammond '57' B3 to hook up to my Leslie 145, sounds amazing. Might sell my Xk5 and get the Soul!@@frankmontis
Well, the irony here is that the overdrive is nothing but real. It is coming from the 142 vintage Leslie . When connecting a real Leslie with the 11-pin connector the overdrive of the pre-amp section of the organ was turned off back when I created this video. So there is no overdrive from the organ here. Now, at my request months ago that overdrive IS available when using a Leslie .
Apart from the fact that your statement is a little bit pointless you haven’t listened to a lot of the jazz organ greats then, because you will hardly see any of them play pedals other than stomping a few notes to give the left hand bass more punch, but that’s not playing the pedals. Not that they couldn’t do it, but they hardly did, apart from maybe e ballad. And there’s a reason for it too. And yes, there are exceptions , as always. And lastly, real jazz has no such rules. If it had rules that could not be broken it wouldn’t have existed in the first place. I don’t consider myself a ‘real’ jazz organ player, but a pretty decent organ player nonetheless
