How to Simulate Hammond Organs

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In this clip, we're going to be talking about what to do when you don't have a real Hammond on stage with you. A lot of times, you just don't have the size or the stage or the capability to have a real organ there. But, you want that sound. So, we're going to talk about a couple ways you can get that. The first option is to just play a keyboard with an organ patch on it. Typically, you'll have three or four different organ sounds. And, now that you've seen some of the ways you can get different sounds off that. You can start to see what kinds of draw bar settings they're going to be emulating. But, the problem with that is you typically you can't change those draw bar settings. You just, it's taken this patch or takes the next one. So, that's not recommended. If you really want it to sound like a Hammond on stage, that's not the best way to go. The other way is to take is to play what they call a Hammond simulator or a tone wheel simulator. Basically, an organ simulator. And, it's another type of keyboard. This type is called a Nord Electro. There are a ton of different brands out there and different types of generators. But, this they all basically do the same thing. They're all going to have some sort of basic draw bar simulator. Which in this case, its pushing buttons down instead of moving the draw bars them. But, you can see you get the same effect. It's even got the percussion, so you can put that on there. You can hear that, there's even the vibrato simulating those same kinds of things. You can even split this up, so you know you can simulate having two different keyboards and you have different settings for those. So, you know you can split that. You, also the important thing. Arguably, the most important thing is the Leslie simulator. So, you've got to have something that simulates that speaker spinning.

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