Controlling Hammond Organ Volume

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In this clip we're going to be talking about controlling volume on a Hammond. The, the very first thing, and the most obvious thing, is the volume pedal. This pedal works just like an accelerator, the farther down you push it, the louder it gets. So, you just use this for basic swells. That's your first method of, of volume control. Pretty simple. Now, the volume pedal is not the only way to control volume, and really, if you want to be smart about making your sounds blend, you'll use this second technique as well, which is really, each one of these draw bars is a volume for that particular draw bar. Right? So, when you're, when you're rocking the big low stuff, you know. But you want to also, we'll go back to this preset so you can, you also want to have a high, kind of quiet sounding... Now, let's make it a little bit. So you want to use those two sounds together. Obviously, this is way louder than this is right now, but you need to, you know, to get the right blend you, you have these guys further up. So, you know, you pull these guys up together, you're going to get the same sound, just quieter, so. In fact, then now, this guy's, these guys are a little bit quiet, so. So those, those two matches up together, so really the volume control is just as much about the draw bars that you're going to be using as it is the, just using the volume pedal. The third way to control volume is through this fancy switch, called the "volume switch". It just toggles you between the normal volume, which is what I've been playing at, and soft volume. And really I would only use this for when you're playing by yourself or just practicing or anything like that, because you already have the other control, it's just, that just keeps it softer so, you know, so that neighbors don't complain.

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