- DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 MANUALS
- DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 INSTALL
- DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 GENERATOR
- DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 MANUAL
In my case, a Kurzweil gets me close enough, and has really great sounds. A new digital Hammond (XK, ect.) is more attractive, but I don't even play tonewheel enough to even want bring one of those with me. Unfortunately I don't have a specific crew for lugging around old analog machines. I wouldn't consider one simply because I couldn't gig with it. SSM I'm not going to lie I cringe every time someone pays any sort of big money for old B3s A-100s and C3s. If you have a Hammond gig and can find an organ/Leslie combo that works well, you can't beat the original, but for varying your sound the new ones are more efficient. The C I used fell apart, drawbars stopped working, I lost speed control and more, and the B was distorting heavily on softer volumes too, making it difficult to play different genres. I did a few gigs last autumn with rental consoles, both B and C models, and although they sound fantastic I actually prefer my B-3P live. I've done 5 tours with the B3-P and a Leslie 3300, it sounds great, feels great and I get lots of compliments on the sound. I prefer using the A-100 for recording and I believe it will outlast my B-3P, but the convenience of a roadworthy and great feeling Hammond makes it worth it for me. I have an early 70's A-100 and a New B3-P. They can be some of the best-sounding Hammonds around.
DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 GENERATOR
The upside with the foam-era consoles is they are almost all "red-cap" organs, meaning the filter capacitors used on the tone generator and elsewhere are the red-cased mylar film caps, which hold their value and don't drift nearly as much as the paper caps used in earlier organs. This is a relatively easy repair, though.
DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 MANUALS
This can quickly go from being a huge pain in the rear to having manuals beyond practical repair, at which point donor manuals need to be sourced.Īnother bugbear with consoles of this vintage is they often have round gold-ish-colored busbars that are usually badly tarnished if the organ has never been serviced. In hot/humid climates especially, this foam deteriorates and can "eat" the resistance wires going from the terminal strip to the keyswitch stacks, causing missing tones.
DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 MANUAL
Hammond consoles made after early-mid 1964 have foam dust gaskets in the manual chassis instead of the felt gaskets used in earlier consoles. Usually relevant, nearly always pithy, I just feel that this place is a (slightly) poorer forum without him. It's not that I miss JA per se, I just liked to read his comments on here. Thanks for the tip about Mitch Towne's tonewheels, I will get on that. Anyway, it's out of my price range, and I don't have the space. I agree that the price of the new models is. I have actually just bought a 61 key SK1, didn't really NEED it, but.well, you all know the rest! Do you think the new Hammonds sound as good as your 1961 model? You can see what his current project is on his website.ĭave, I'm not GASsing for an old Hammond, (or even a new one if it comes to that), I was just interested to see if the "essence" had carried over into the new ones.
DIGITAL HAMMOND B3 INSTALL
Don't you have a Mojo? Install Mitch Towne's A100 Tonewheel set and forget about a new Hammond.īTW, if you miss JA so much, just because he's not here doesn't mean he's not anywhere. The newest Hammonds sound excellent, but are pricey. Although very versatile, it never had the creaminess that my A100 has. I had a Hammond XK3c Traditional System for a few years. It is much easier for us on this side of the pond that for you on that side of the pond to get vintage Hammond organs inexpensively. Like Joe, I also have a 1961 A 100 (mine has a different finish). I'm assuming - perhaps incorrectly - that the maintenance and upkeep on the new models would be easier and cheaper, but how does the "feel" compare? And, more importantly, how do the sounds stack up (assuming similar amplification/leslie cabinets).īTW, it's a shame Jim Alfredson is taking a (hopefully temporary) break, but I'm sure there are others who could chime in here.
As I am a relative newcomer to keyboards, I was wondering if anyone on here knows how the current Hammond B3 MK 2, C3 MK 2 and A-162 compare with the old (1960's and 1970's) B3, C3 and A-100?
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