Subj : Hammond B-3s
To : Steve Kaplan
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Mon Nov 06 2000 10:02 am
-=> Steve Kaplan wrote to Bill Riley <=-
SK> "lugging the B-3"
SK> They're brutal, and personally I see no reason to haul a B-3.
The sound, man! The sound... ;-)
SK> Looks cool....yes, outsdie of that it's rediculous.. Have you
SK> heard how nice the digital Roland, Oberheim, and Korg organ
SK> samples are?
I've heard a Korg, and Roland that each had a pretty good B-3 sound.
FWIW, Hammond themselves make a portable synth model called the X-B3.
They have one of the best of synthesized B-3 sounds I've heard. The
young keyboard whiz Joey DeFrancesco played one for some years, and
maybe still does.
Martin
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