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I wonder how the growling organ sound at approx 0:56 of this video can be achieved exactly, means which drawbar settings, chorus/vibrato, Leslie etc. would be needed to replicate it - does anyone has an idea?
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 09 Dec 2025, 23:58
by Alan Hammer
You won’t be able to get the exact sound but you can get close in you download one of the Hammond patches. I pull first 4 drawbars all the way down & then step the rest between 6-4 until u get close, Leslie on.
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 10 Dec 2025, 00:10
by Schorsch
Thanks Alan,
let me ask in a different way: what is needed on a real Hammond to get this sound, in terms of settings as well as externals like Leslie?
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 22:29
by Schorsch
Hey guys,
no idea for my question above?
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 00:50
by ericL
Hey there, I had a listen to this the other day and didn’t have time to write a response. I am hearing a nearly full Hammond drawbar sound with overdrive, Leslie, C3 chorus. I would start full on 888888888 and then push a few drawbars back a touch, perhaps 848665446 or something like that. The bottom four drawbars will drive the majority of the sound with the higher drawbars as the sparkle on top.
I’m not in a place to listen again so I will check it again later. Good luck!
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 16:32
by analogika
Yeah, I'd start with bottom six drawbars out, no percussion, C3, Leslie fast, and plenty of distortion on the Leslie (and maybe some amp distortion, as well).
Re: Can anyone tell how this sound can be achieved?
Posted: 31 Dec 2025, 07:15
by Mr. Marko
I just played along with this tune using the following setting on a NS4 thru Presonus Sceptre 8 Studio Monitors with a 10" Tembler Sub
Nord Stage 4 Settings:
B3 Mode
Chorus 2 On
Percussion Off
Drive 4
Drawbars 856500000
Stage Reverb to taste
And if I were to play this tune at a blues open mic...that might be where I would start...unless the performance that night took on some dynamics and then - well---then the real fun begins.
It became important for me to wrap my head around the fact that good organ players of every era are different animals from KEYBOARD PLAYERS (and yes - I am a keyboard player) who think in terms of A PATCH for A SONG.
These cats...ride the organ like a harley davidson with no helmet...they gas it and lean into it...and raise hell within the execution of a tune. All setting are fair game...and the player's ear is guiding what you hear coming out.
Watch a video of Joey D, Jimmy Smith, Lachy Doley, Greg Allman and others and you will see their left hand stirring the soup throughout the tune.
Ride the drawbars within paradigm of your playing...your ear is a key component...gospel players basically rule the roost with left hand activity.