Nord Stage 3 - hammond B3 Sound

[aureliopenna]

My opinion is thats there's no low end on NS3 hammond, even 60/40 or 70/30.
And the High Percussion is still crackling the sound!

I wonder if it´s just the the rotary effect?
I ran a sine wave through it and there seems to be a huge "hole" in the lower bass spectrum..

Yes, rotary makes it even thinner. It's very wrong "out of phase" sounding.

[Jo Osantos1]

Even with that configurations, my Electro 4D sounded a lot better than the Stage 3 Compact

[aureliopenna]

Even with that configurations, my Electro 4D sounded a lot better than the Stage 3 Compact

But electro 4d IS better than Stage 3 in terms of organ, as the electro 3 has better organ to in my opinion.
I don't want to be negative, but is wrong to say that they have the "same" organ. No they don't, they could share same everything and still souding different from each other.

[skykeys]

Hello. I am considering a purchase of the NS 3, and as I read the comments here about the B3 sound, I'm a bit concerned. I have not used any Nord products up to this point. I have used a Yamaha S90-ES for 12 years. But anyway - - my question concerns any updates to this B3 sound problem I see reported on this page.

Can anyone give me an update as to the status of the sound? Has Nord sent a patch or otherwise fixed the issue?

How do you all feel about the B3 sound in the NS 3 now?

Thank you,
Lou

[kbmatson]

After playing with it - eq - compression - and some of the sound menu setting - I'm pretty happy with it ...

[Jo Osantos1]

After playing with it - eq - compression - and some of the sound menu setting - I'm pretty happy with it ...

Can you share your settings?

[TonBeljon]

Hello. I am considering a purchase of the NS 3, and as I read the comments here about the B3 sound, I'm a bit concerned. I have not used any Nord products up to this point. I have used a Yamaha S90-ES for 12 years. But anyway - - my question concerns any updates to this B3 sound problem I see reported on this page.

Can anyone give me an update as to the status of the sound? Has Nord sent a patch or otherwise fixed the issue?

How do you all feel about the B3 sound in the NS 3 now?

Thank you,
Lou

Hammond B3 sound is very good in the NS 3! I still use version 1.42

[Schorsch]

After playing with it - eq - compression - and some of the sound menu setting - I'm pretty happy with it ...

Can you share your settings?

+1 am also very interested in the settings

[kbmatson]

After playing with it - eq - compression - and some of the sound menu setting - I'm pretty happy with it ...

Can you share your settings?

+1 am also very interested in the settings

Ok - here's what I've got that I'm fairly happy with. I may tweak it further at some point - but this works for now. Keep in mind I'm more of a rock/blues player and not a "clean" jazz or gospel player - settings for those styles would likely be different.

B3
Leslie On

Sound Menu
Mode: Vintage 2
Organ Click Level: High
Trigger Point: High
Leslie Type: 122 Close (this is an important one!)
Bass/Horn Ratio - i bounced around but ended up back at 50/50
Rotary Speed: Normal .... Acceleration: Low
Horn Speed: Normal .... Acceleration: Normal

EQ
Bass EQ: + 10db
Mid EQ: 635 Hz -3db
High EQ: +6db
Everything else in amp/eq section is off/0

Other
Compressor: 8 slow (many people will use "fast" but I find I like slow better most of the time)
Rotary Drive - I usually start about 3.5 and manually turn up or down to suit the song.
Reverb: Stage 1 Amt: 2.6

This works for me.

[bobcat1948]

Hi, I am getting ready to upgrade to the ns 3 from the ns 2 can anyone tell me if the B3 sound has been fixed ? There seems to be a lot of complaining about this on the ns3 .
Thank You