Month: January 2005

Hammond C-3

classic electro-mechanical organ

This is my favorite instrument, and the one I feel I’ve developed a personal style on. I play it through a Hammond PR-40 Tone Cabinet with reverb, not through a Leslie – I feel it better preserves the character of the organ — but that could change in the future.

I pretty much play in the old Jimmy Smith style, with a lot of swing, or in the hard-bop vein. My favorite drawbar settings are the jazz standard 888000000 on the swell, and 838000000 on the great manual, soft 3rd harmonic percussion with fast release, and C3 chorus, but I experiment with alternate settings, depending on the song I’m playing.

Hammond C-3 audio demos

I played these three examples on my 1968 Hammond C-3 + Hammond PR-40 tone cabinet:

Hammond C-3 examples - Back At The Chicken Shack

Hammond C-3 examples - various jazzy

Hammond C-3 examples - various, blues, reggae, church

Hammond C-3 photos

Hammond C-3 manuals

Hammond locking top consoles owner’s playing guide Download

Hammond Organ B3-C3 Service Manual Download

Hammond C-3 links

hammondorganco.com

Tags 1954, Hammond

Sample CD

Stand By Music Pro. B-3 Organ – The Legend

Post author By Paolo
Post date January 1, 2005
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Sample CD

This is a sample CD from a German company – Stand By Music Pro. – that I bought in early ’90s. I used it quite a bit and built a few very good velocity-switch Hammond patches on my Roland W-30 at the time.

This is an audio CD containing B-3 notes, sampled every semitone.

Here’s the on board demo:

Stand By Music Pro. B-3 Organ – The Legend audio demo

Tags 1990s, Stand By Music Pro.

Sample CD

Best Service Alpha Dance II

Post author By Paolo
Post date January 1, 2005
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Sample CD-ROM library in audio & Akai format

Alpha Dance II is the sequel to Best Service’s Alpha Dance, one of the classic techno-dance CDs of the early-mid 1990s.

Alpha Dance II comes in two CDs – one that contains the audio format, and the other one containing the Akai CD-ROM portion of this collection. There is a generous 300MB of samples, all geared for dance production.

This collection was produced in Berlin in 1995, and naturally the style best suited to it is mid-90s techno-house. All the elements needed in a dance production are present, including liquid house organs, superb sequencer lines, analog-sounding and evolving pads, several different types of synth FX, bleeps, zaps, sub bass, vocals, acoustic and electronic percussion loops, lead synths, basses, vocoders, and more!

The nice thing about this CDs is that the samples were all recorded very dry and clean; that gives the users the ability to apply their own effects and production tricks.

Check out the following demos of individual patches from Alpha Dance II:

Best Service Alpha Dance II audio demos

The original factory demo song. This song will give you an idea of how much you can do with just a sampler and a well-produced sample CD like this.

And here below I’m adding some examples of the single sounds contained in the Akai CD-ROM. All examples were played from Propellerhead Reason 3’s NN-XT sampler, going through the RV7000 reverb (running programs matched to the nature of the samples) – going through the default Mastering Suite.