Hammond Sounds

[Dave Martin]

Whoopee! Real Hammond organs are the greatest!

[TriTone Digital]

Yep, I picked up a mint M3 a few months ago. Little old lady bought it in 1958; it was moved 1 time for service a few years ago. Not a scratch on it. Tube spring reverb with separate cabinet. Leslie 25. Original receipts, manuals, brochures, bench, everything.

$150.

Of course, then I had to get a real Leslie (2 speed, full re-conditioned Leslie 45), which wasn't quite a steal like the M3, but man, oh man, the SOUND THE SOUND THE SOUND.

Added a Speakeasy tube preamp for using the Leslie with other sources (line or instrument level), and now the 25 is my main guitar amp and I can do that crazy Leslie vocal thing. Actually used the Leslie 25 on a pedal steel session yesterday. Crazy!

Damon

[Telecastr]

I'm a proud owner of an M3 as well, paired with a Leslie 130. I need a 122 though. The M3 is great because the amp is almost the exact same as the AO28 amp in a B3, and it weighs no where near the same as the B3. I've had my M for about 2 years now. You can't get close to the same sound using a simulator of a Hammond.

[Petermix]

HA!

Got a 70's B3 with the matched 122 leslie in the studio... how ya like that one?

[Dave Martin]

Originally posted by Petermix
HA!

Got a 70's B3 with the matched 122 leslie in the studio... how ya like that one?

Probably almost as well as my 1957 C3 and 221H Leslie...

[Telecastr]

Originally posted by Petermix
HA!

Got a 70's B3 with the matched 122 leslie in the studio... how ya like that one?

HA! i bet you got a hernea from moving it in there and you paid thousands more. i've got no comeback for the leslie though. it's the same one i want.

[max cooper]

BTW: Ian McLagan at Lucky Lounge in Austin tomorrow nite.

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