22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
5:14 p.m.
I wrote:
It's also really worth playing with the LADSPA swh
impulse convolver
plugin. Guitar amps sound really good on hammond! Also the TAP preamps
are nice. A bit of fuzz and grit+limited freqency range and odd
resonances really brings it to life.
The one thing no midi hammond can ever do is the way different tones
come in at different times as you press down the key. This means you
can
kinda flick the keys and just get the top drawbar to
plip a little and
the percussion to ping.
John Check wrote:
"Can you elaborate on that? Is it an artifact of the differing
wavelengths or
the physical construction?"
It's the way all the key contacts don't touch the bus bars at the same
time, so as you press down the key, the high drawbars and percussion
sound first, and then as you press down a tiny bit more the other
drawbars sound. I think my hammond's keyboard is probably more knackered
than most so I notice it/ use it more.