Just bought the Easy Sounds B3 Expansion pack for my Genos.
On Sale right now for $33 vow (on the Yamaha website).
Jamming to some Santana Styles ...
I am in B3 Heaven



Eric

following your post i went and got the pack also...worked out just over £30 here in the uk...been exploring the sounds...very pleased so far...especially when the rotary sp is added

Glad to hear that you are also enjoying he pack.
I really like how the Leslie comes in slow how it should be ...
I am also one happy camper.
Enjoy
Eric

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Eric thanks , but as a fan of the B3 I must say that I am far of beeing impressed/ as a matter of fact and as a v e r y happy owner of Genos i think that the only complain i have against the genos is on the hammond department and especcialy the leslie .
i do not find the two rotors withe diffrenet speeds and i do not find the real pure sound of PROKOL HARUM ' the package is made by twicked sounds and not so succesfull ' i think that every one can edit the sounds of the hammond on the genos even with more success.

sorry for my broken english

Thats why i have a gemini (same as the mojo) module..
Next to best b3 also best dp and much much more

Don't want to sound like a wet blanket but I wasn't that impressed with the 'Hammond' sounds either. Maybe I've just been listening to too many good 'clonewheels' lately. They're not actually bad, just not 'great' (IMO). They would work in a mix, probably not so much as a solo instrument. But hey, it's all subjective. If it works for YOU and it works for your audiences, then who's to complain. I'd like to hear the opinion of BK9 owners (they have a reputation for having good organ sounds for an arranger).

chas

Eric thannx for sharing enjoy!!
IMO if you want a Hammond sound..... buy a Hammond w/ Leslie.



I could spend all day in this store wow!

https://keyboardexchange.com/

Yep, NOTHING sounds like the real thing. You can hear it in Donny's video, despite the horrible playing. The fullness, the richness, the 'bite', just can't seem to be captured digitally, even by the best clonewheels (although some like the H-S, KeyB, and Mojo, come pretty close).

chas

Chas, what was your opinion of the old M100 series? Not a B3, but of the spinets the M100s offered the real Hammond sound through a Leslie.

124, to be honest, I don't know much about the M100 series. During my time in the jazz organ trio heyday, none of my fellow organist had or used spinets, only B3's with a rare C3 (or sometimes a modded B2,C2,BV,CV with aftermarket-percussion) but never a spinet (ruined their image I suppose ). Plenty of M3's on the Rock scene however, but that was a decade later. From what I've heard, there was a noticeable difference in the vibrato section and also in the preamps, but I'm not sure how that effected the overall sound.

chas

Actually all the sounds were sampled not tweaked.
There is a detailed description with the pack as well as on the Yamaha website.

Let's not forget folks: we are talking about $30 bucks here.
As Chas said: it really works well in a mix.
The sounds are fuller than the ones in the Genos and cut better through.
For about $30 bucks, good enough for me
Eric

That was great thanks.
But we are talking arrangers here
I am not buying guitars, Saxes, Trumpets, Piano etc either
Just sayin ...

I sorta guessed you stayed among the big un's (a dream of mine, really).

I schlepped an M102 around in my pop band in the 60/70s - portability more than anything. Prior to that I had an L102 and there was a big difference going to the M. You could tweak the trim pot on the amp chassis which would get that big output tube pumping and produce a nice distortion a la Steve Winwood. For all intents and purposes the M's were a reasonable substitute for a B3, A100, but never a replacement, of course.

Another trick was to have the 2nd harmonic percussion tab on, then just squeeze the 3rd harmonic and you could really ger her to howl. Fun days.

I used to cut my Leslie 122 and 147 in half made it easy to carry to gigs...

Yep, did that with the M102 Donny. Then 18 multiplug connectors between the two halves.

I use Nord 4 for the hammond as a secand key to the Genos ,the leslie is very nice and the sound is much better than B3 on Genos ,
the sound is thin but it is not a bad compromise .

Nothing compares to a real Leslie...

agree donny

Yup, ya gotta move air.