CountFosco wrote:And, my opinion, not one person on the entire planet (not even another keyboard player in the audience at your next gig), will hear the difference between your Nord sim and the Vent's sim.
I agree with this, ultimately, the player is the only person who will notice and care about the sound to such level of detail. But we do care don't we?
Also, it's funny to see how caricatured this phenomenon is when it concerns the world of Hammond and Leslies, so full of purists. Not only they claim to notice, they also claim to notice "with no doubt whatsoever" that any clone / leslie sim "can't even get close" to the real thing, as if it were a flute trying to sound like a sax or something. The fun part is how all of these "tests" and comparisons give such result under the little condition of being done while actually
looking at the thing being played!
The only thing I think it's undeniably different and better is a real Leslie in the room. This is fair to say most people would instantly tell it apart from the best simulator available, even if for its physical moving nature. But when it's mic'ed and heard through the recording, things aren't so clear cut anymore...
With clonewheels themselves, on the other hand, things are very clear cut instead, in the sense that I don't think any person on the planet,
giving the same amplification, would be able to tell any of the top end clones available now apart from a tonewheel. Again, not without looking of course.
