Using Hammond Organ Presets

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In this clip, we're going to be talking about the presets. The presets are this octave of keys at the bottom of the keyboard--of each one of the keyboards--and they're the ones that are reverse colored. They're not actual notes. Like when you play them, you don't hear anything. They are actually just different sounds. It's like, basically, your different keyboard patches, if you think of them in terms of a regular keyboard. And, incidentally, just to let you guys know, each one of these keyboards here is called a manual. You have your upper manual and your lower manual, and you'll see those referenced in different places later. But that's the official term for them. Anyway, the way these work is C resets them all. So, you see like if you have one of these pushed down, it stays pushed down. You hit C, that resets it. And then each one of these will play a different sound. Each one of these simulates a different draw bar setting. Now, these are preset at the factory, or way back in the day they were. And you can actually change those presets, but it's all this like crazy wiring stuff that you have to do in the back of the organ. So we're not even going to bother with that. The way you get your custom tones is through these two notes, your B flat is this set of draw bars. Alright? So when you set it to here, that runs these draw bars. When you set it to B, that sets these draw bars. So, you basically have two sets of draw bars for each manual, and you control those with the preset here. So, let's say you have kind of a lower sound, a grittier sound for here, and then a more like a gospel-y sound on this one, and you want to switch between those two sounds in the song. You can do that on the same keyboard. So you have it to B flat. Then you want to switch to that one, you just hit this. So that's how you can switch back and forth between the sounds. So, basically, you have four sets of draw bars. You have all your different presets in here. You have four different sounds that you can get between the two sets of keyboards, between the two manuals.

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