Listen to HX3 before buying

[lordy]

Hi everyone, i'm new here, and happy of it.
I used to be a B3 player few years ago, but so frustrating when friends say " hey come on, take your B3 ..." No, i can"t.
I sold it, without any regrets actually, and the Hammond is come back in my head.

The HX3 seems to be cool, but a question many people asks i think:
How can i do to listen to it, really, not youtube, and how did you do all to buy it if you didn't try it before. It would be great somebody who got this HX3 sends me sounds from, to hear THE sound, the leakage, percus, bass etc etc, because my heat balances between the mojo and this hx3 engine and mag organ most of all.

thanks lot

[hoaxel]

try it, you´ll buy it

where do you live, may be, there is somebody not so far from you, Axel

[lordy]

I'm in France, near La Rochelle, sometimes in Besançon near Lausanne...

[happyfreddy]

hi
On Keyboardpartner homepage You find some Demos / Vids so You can hear the Sound
http://www.keyboardpartner.de/demos.html
happyfreddy

[Gast]

...it is the first thing i listened to...
Could someone may record simples chords with 808.. or just 008... no chorus, to hear the maximum of leakage for me please ?

Thanks

[marcoballa]

Hi everyone, i'm new here, and happy of it.
I used to be a B3 player few years ago, but so frustrating when friends say " hey come on, take your B3 ..." No, i can"t.
I sold it, without any regrets actually, and the Hammond is come back in my head.

The HX3 seems to be cool, but a question many people asks i think:
How can i do to listen to it, really, not youtube, and how did you do all to buy it if you didn't try it before. It would be great somebody who got this HX3 sends me sounds from, to hear THE sound, the leakage, percus, bass etc etc, because my heat balances between the mojo and this hx3 engine and mag organ most of all.

thanks lot

ciao!

here some of my experiments with HX3 expander.
OK, still audio or video from youtube.... but it is quite realistic (listen with good hearphones or, better, with a pair of good studio monitors):

http://www.divshare.com/download/26290822-975
(HX3 direct out to mixer - loop backtrack from Yamaha MOXF)

http://www.divshare.com/download/25987079-c05
(HX3 out to a Roland SA1000 stereo amp - recorded with a ZOOM H2n recorder in front of the amp)

http://youtu.be/GLmDhUw3-GA
(HX3 out to a real tube rotary cabinet - with a Reussenzehn 15 watt Organ Studio Amp http://www.reussenzehn.de/de/musiker/or ... io-amp.php)

http://youtu.be/IsBzW1mrzng
(HX3 - Organ Drive - GSi BURN - Roland SA1000 - ZOOM H2n)

http://youtu.be/qUUDBE8OAtU
(HX3 - Roland SA1000 - ZOOM H2n)

http://youtu.be/kNbLePq4oU8
(HX3 - Organ Drive - BURN)

[lordy]

Thanks for the links. Unfortunately, it doesn't answer my questions.

thank you anyway

[marcoballa]

OK, I know it is difficult to test it, as there is no distribution in shops, ecc.

I played/owned several digital clonewheels during these last 10 years:

- KORG CX3
- SUZUKI XB2 / XK2 / XK3 / SK2
- CLAVIA NORD C2
- KEYB DUO
- HAMICHORD / MOJO
- HX3


Concerning these “last generation” clonewheels it has to be clear that:

- NO ONE of them sounds 100% like my 1964 Hammond C3 + tube leslie :lol:

- Each of them has some good (or really good) details similar to the original vintage organ + leslie (one has a really good leslie simulation, another has realistic chorus, one has a very good simulation of leslie tube saturation, one has a better presence on higher octaves, ecc.)

- The “definitive” clonewheels does not exist and probably will never exist :D .
Just to make an example (but anything should be in a different mix, this is just an example): chorus and leakage from KeyBduo, percussion and tube saturation from HX3, keyclick and tone generator from Hamichord/Mojo, leslie simulation from BURN, ecc.


HX3 and Mojo are both great “machines”, each with different great features.
Unfortunately we are not “neighbors”: I would invite you at home, for a coffe and a side by side comparison between some of these great instruments :mrgreen:

[lordy]

... ans I would have brought small cakes !

Thanks a lot Marco. It's interesting what you wrote, u're my man, and if you have 10 minutes to loose, could you record a beautiful C major without bass, without overdrive, with maximum of leakage settings in this HX3, just simple. Would be great

lordandrums@gmail.com

[marcoballa]

... ans I would have brought small cakes !

Thanks a lot Marco. It's interesting what you wrote, u're my man, and if you have 10 minutes to loose, could you record a beautiful C major without bass, without overdrive, with maximum of leakage settings in this HX3, just simple. Would be great

lordandrums@gmail.com

I'll try, just have a little patience :D