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Vibrato/Chorus
Anyone know of a real good effects unit that I can run a Nord Electro 5D through that will produce an authentic Hammond chorus sound like setting C3 on a Hammond organ ?
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Re: Vibrato/Chorus
I don't think there's any effect box that's closer than the Nord's own C3 setting. The only alternatives that might be closer are some of the competing "clonewheel" organs/modules.
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Re: Vibrato/Chorus
anotherscott wrote:I don't think there's any effect box that's closer than the Nord's own C3 setting. The only alternatives that might be closer are some of the competing "clonewheel" organs/modules.
Yes, indeed - the ch/vib effect does seem to be the reason why some folk are giving their C-series Nords up and going for a Crumar Mojo or a KeyB/Viscount Legend; I expect a few Electro users who only want organ and a couple of decent EPs will start looking at the Mojo 61.
Back in the very earliest days of the Neo Ventilator, I used to exchange emails with Guido Kirsch and he mentioned that he was considering an expanded Ventilator 'deluxe' with an attempt at the scanner vibrato and chorus added. At first, I salivated - if Guido's idea/standards of a Leslie sim was any guide, this idea could be sh*t hot. But one thing niggled and I replied to him:
"You do know the harmonic percussion doesn't ever see the vibrato effect in a tonewheel, right?"
And he didn't, and that was that - killed the idea stone dead! We had a brief round of exchanges about whether any (then current) digi clonewheels with FX loops presented the percussion afterwards, which would at least mean a separate ch/vib effect could be insterted, then the Ventilator after the percussion was mixed in, but it all seemed very unlikely, and the point was a 'one box' solution to scanner vibrato and rotary speaker, which wouldn't be do-able.
I guess also that this is the very reason why there has never been much trade interest in an aftermarket scanner chorus/vibrato effect, this lack of authenticity if you merely pump the whole output of a clonewheel into it. It would be flawed as soon as you select harmonic percussion, which is of course a key ingredient of the classic "888000000 plus 3rd harmonic' registration and thus present on 75% of all jazz/blues organ out there.
I'm afraid that the above post is quite right: if you find the ch/vib effect in your Nord to be sounding a little lacklustre, the time has come for a new clonewheel - or live with what you've got as is...
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