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No fold back on top end either on the spinets.
They had to motivate the pricing somehow.

the foldback is what makes the beefier sound on the consoles, the lack of foldback makes it thin on top on the spinets..

flmc, I'm not sure what you mean. It seems to me many of the drawbars fold back (repeat the previous octave as you go up) on my M-3 and L-100. First time I glissed up on my M-3, it punked out so bad I thought there was something wrong with it.

Pull out the 1 " and play your way up.
Unless foldback had been added the 1 " end on f# octave and half below top C
The L100 and M series does not have the tapering of the voices. This compensates the foldback to some extent.

Yes, if you have foldback on a spinet then it was modified to do that.

Reading this again, I wonder how many people have gotten their hands on a C2D by now, and if they've tried dialing a spinet sound into it?

Tony Banks did use a Leslie in the early days, and stuck everything through it - "Genesis Live" even has his 12 string going through it. He switched to a phaser pedal after Phil Collins took over singing lead. He's a songwriter first and foremost, and only used things like the Hammond and ARP 2600 because they were the only ways of getting "pad" or "lead" sounds back then. To him, an organ patch on a Korg Triton will do just as well.

"The L100 and M series does not have the tapering of the voices."

Okay, I see, I was thrown off by the different size( #of notes) keyboards I stand corrected. They do not taper.
Well, at any rate, I can report that the Hammond XPK-200 pedal set I picked up mates perfectly with my C-2. MIDI Channel 3 is the standard pedal channel, but the pedals can transmit on any one channel and the Nord receive pedal MIDI on any channel selected. And then the synth bass and pedal drawbars are played through the pedals. It even fits nicely on the stand, and puts the volume pedals in the standard spot. May go to table stand. Sorry about prattling on about this, but I never dreamed I'd have a portable rig with 20 pedals. That's all I need to take over when the bass player needs both hands to sing.

Ritchie333 wrote:Tony Banks did use a Leslie in the early days, and stuck everything through it - "Genesis Live" even has his 12 string going through it. He switched to a phaser pedal after Phil Collins took over singing lead. He's a songwriter first and foremost, and only used things like the Hammond and ARP 2600 because they were the only ways of getting "pad" or "lead" sounds back then. To him, an organ patch on a Korg Triton will do just as well.

Well, people say that - but in the old days, he & Steve Hackett are on record as saying that they used to play games with each other, trying to copy the sounds of each other's instrument (then playing both the results together).
Being a 'sound designer' might not have been his primary interest, but in the Gabriel days he came up with some excellent timbres from his gear which added something very special to a lot of the songs.
Can you seriously imagine, for instance, 'Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats' or ' Dancing With the Moonlit Knight' being half as good without the mellotron choir?

The console models had, what was it 91 or 96 tonewheels, and the spinet models had 66, if I recall. Anyway, picked up a very nice blonde M3, with a Hammond factory reverb and matching !0" factory reverb speaker. Never seen that before. Out of all the spinets, the M-3 is my favorite, and this is the best M-3 I've ever heard. We saved it from certain death in a leaky outbuilding at the head of a bay. The nightly miasma would have killed it by spring.