Members Glyder Posted December 26, 2005 Members Share Posted December 26, 2005 Pretty neat. www.discretesynthesizers.com/Nova/intro.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 26, 2005 Members Share Posted December 26, 2005 Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flanc Posted December 26, 2005 Members Share Posted December 26, 2005 What an incredible amount of work....but a very nice end finished piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DDAY Posted December 26, 2005 Members Share Posted December 26, 2005 WOW I am completely blown away. Thats a lot of work. Great job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ear Abuser Posted December 27, 2005 Members Share Posted December 27, 2005 Talk about a labor of love- But, nothing sounds like a Hammond!(Proud owner of a 1950's C2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 28, 2005 Members Share Posted December 28, 2005 I owned an M3 for a while. I used to service the B's and C's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ezstep Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 I remember my first "decent" band had a "stripped down" B3 - and it still weighed 400 pounds or so (or it seemed like it!) It took all four of us to lift it in and out of the truck. A few years later he traded it in on an M3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 Yeah, the B's were hardly "portable" except the solid state "Porta-B" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Real MC Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 Porta-B is tube, not solid-state. Happy owner of one since 1981. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 Originally posted by The Real MC Porta-B is tube, not solid-state. Happy owner of one since 1981. It's been a very long time since I've seen/played one but if I recall correctly, it was like a chopped M-3 (maybe a slightly shorter keuyboard(s)) and I thought it was made in the late 60's and very early 70's. I don't remember if it was all tube or solid state but it may have been a hybrid. It was kind of their last attempt at survival as the organ market was just getting a glimse at the digital possibilities of the future, which is why Suzuki was ultimately interetsted in them and then bought them in the middle-late 70's (?). A vey cool tone-wheel piece that was pretty successful considering the times. Roland then came out with the VK-1 (?) which was one of the first successful attemts to recreate the tonewheel sound digitally. I think a friend of mine still has a few various B's and C's in his shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ear Abuser Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 The Chopped B3s where smaller but you didn't really make them much lighter- it was the tonewheels not the legs that made 'em heavy-I just about lost a friend carrying my C2 down the basements steps- I'm pretty sure it's the heaviest thing he or I ever lifted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Real MC Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 Originally posted by agedhorse It's been a very long time since I've seen/played one but if I recall correctly, it was like a chopped M-3 (maybe a slightly shorter keuyboard(s)) and I thought it was made in the late 60's and very early 70's. I don't remember if it was all tube or solid state but it may have been a hybrid. It was kind of their last attempt at survival as the organ market was just getting a glimse at the digital possibilities of the future, which is why Suzuki was ultimately interetsted in them and then bought them in the middle-late 70's (?). A vey cool tone-wheel piece that was pretty successful considering the times. Chopped up L-100 actually. The sole transistor is used in the percussion keying circuit. Big omission is lack of scanner vibrato, Porta-B/L-100 was electronic phase shift circuit. But Porta-B had all 91 tonewheels wired in, the only spinet done like this. Mine just happens to sound really good, it screams for R&B and Rawk. Very cool tonewheel organ as long as you're not playing jazz on it. The tonewheels aren't the only heavy item in a chopped B-3. Those manuals are heavy too, over 100 lbs. And unless you're using a dense multipin for the 91+ wires between the TG and the manuals, you have to have both the TG and manuals in the same case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted December 29, 2005 Members Share Posted December 29, 2005 Shows you how foggy my memory is. I do however remember clearly how heavy all of the product was. Gut un-zipping at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scodiddly Posted December 30, 2005 Members Share Posted December 30, 2005 Originally posted by The Real MC Big omission is lack of scanner vibrato, Porta-B/L-100 was electronic phase shift circuit. Well, yeah - the vibrato scanner was another few pounds of gears and such. But Porta-B had all 91 tonewheels wired in, the only spinet done like this. Mine just happens to sound really good, it screams for R&B and Rawk. Very cool tonewheel organ as long as you're not playing jazz on it. There are some interesting stories in the various tonewheel schemes used in different models. One of my prized old obscure binders is full of Hammond service manuals, and they did all sorts of interesting things. They even had some "complex" tonewheels with non-sinewave patterns for the bass pedals. And the RT-3 had a monophonic synth for the "pedal solo" unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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