[sdiy] 60s organ sound

Cornutt, David K david.k.cornutt at boeing.com
Thu Dec 16 22:33:10 CET 2004


From: Antti Pitkämäki [mailto:anpitkam at hotmail.com]
> Low pass filttering without any 
> keyboard tracking and maybe with some resonance might make 
> the sound more 
> "coloured", and less "pure". Of course the Vox must be more 
> complex than 
> that.

It's a good thought, though.  Back when I was trying
to do combo organ sounds with my Juno-106, one problem
I always had was that the high notes were ear-piercingly
bright.  I had a feeling that it needed some kind of
fixed low-pass filtering, but playing around with
graphic EQs, I never got it quite right and I never
figured out why.  A good combo organ can play those
high notes without hurting your ears.  Idea: I wonder
if there is some slew rate limiting going on in the
preamp or amp circuits?  Would have made sense back
when these things were built, because most of the time
they would have been played through guitar amps that
couldn't do high slew rates.




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