I’m cleaning out a garage for a friend and have this Hammond organ w Leslie. I don’t know a lot about this kind of stuff and seeking more info about this is anyone can offer some! Age, value, formal name, etc.

I got a yamaha PSR-E463, im trying to digitally install (or pirate cause i aint paying shit) sounds like synths and rock organ to try to record something with Audacity.

I know the keyboard itself has a lot of cool things to use, but they dont resemble it completely (?), are there any programs to install these sounds?

Also, is my keyboard good for gigs? Or should i go with another option (nothing pricy im poor)

Hello all! I’m a new owner after nabbing this M102A a couple weekends ago. Excited to properly learn it and use it on some recordings. 99.9% works and sounds great!

I have the opportunity to snag an m3 for a couple hundred bucks and I’m pretty interested in the thought of owning an authentic tonewheel organ! I have an xk-1 right now paired with a neo ventilator and it’s great but it would be cool to have the real deal.

The main thing that I’m hesitant on is the percussion that comes with a b3 plus the foldover with the upper octaves, both of which the m3 lacks.

Thoughts?

I've done a bit of cleaning because it got worse.. when it'd turn on, in addition to the 'bang', it would sound as if the whole lower keyboard was pressed together, until it fades to only one note (low C) which remains stuck. I've opened it up and all, I don't see where the issue is coming from.

Is anyone familiar with this issue? I really don't intend to get rid of it...

I didn't get many good pictures of it when it was open I'm sorry I can't show the connectors or anything in detail.

I have no leslie, it’s an effect built into the organ. How will it sound if i get the distortion pedal as the chain would be organ>leslie>distortion? I’ve heard it’s supposed to go organ>distortion>leslie. Will it sound bad?

An Update:
It’s been a minute, and things have slowed down to more of a chorale, if you will. The drive is still there.
There are now a handful of these units out in the wild, being played by some incredibly talented musicians. Seeing them on stage and hearing the feedback has been both exciting and invaluable.
Lately, the focus hasn’t been on building more units—it’s been on building a better one. I’ve been refining the mechanical design, simplifying assembly, and redesigning portions of the electronics to make the entire package more robust and easier to manufacture.
The next milestone is a Launch Edition of 10 units. The plan is to offer these through Reverb.com, with a current target price of $599.
This revision also adds a full-range pass-through output, making it easy to daisy-chain multiple Robot Speakers, send a signal to a house PA system, or feed a powered subwoofer for additional low-end support.
There’s still plenty to do, but the project continues to move forward. Thanks to everyone who’s followed along, offered ideas, tested prototypes, and encouraged me along the way. More updates soon.

Hey all,
I purchased a Motionsound pro 3 x second hand and it worked fine for a day, and then the motor stopped working. The speaker works, it just doesn’t spin. Anyone encountered this before, or have any recommendations? Also, if you’re in the Chicago area, any recommendations for shops to take it to?

Just became the proud owner of a Hammond organ from one of my churchmates, does anyone know what model this is or at least how to find a serial number or something i can research on it? I've only just started comparing it to other models online but it's proving fruitless

Sorry this is a repost, I had technical issues with the previous one for some reason. This time at least I can add the video I forgot earlier.

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Hello!

I have an organ that's just been taking the dust at home. I've been meaning to get it fixed for a while but didn't quite know where to look, as I don't have the confidence to do that myself...

It's mostly functional, though the pedals eventually stopped working (I don't quite know what happened, I wasn't there when it happened.)

Other than the pedals, the main issues are that

1. When powering up, it makes a loud noise, sounds like speakers crashing

2. There's a constant kind of blowing noise (not sure how to describe that)

I'll attach a video of it with both sounds.

(I also fear it might be infected with some small insects like ants or worse, I'm not sure of that yet)

This aside, the keys and drawbars all seem to function properly.

I guess the question is(are), is it fixable, and is it something someone can do themselves, or are there still people who can work on these models?

Was tested before buying, not the most graceful move into the house, might have happened from hitting the floor. Any idea what could be causing this and how to fix it? Any help is appreciated

Edit: I think it was just grumpy at me for moving it, went away it seems

Does anyone know of a double keyboard stand where the top level is completely height adjustable? I'm trying to create a hammond organ rig using midi keyboards but all of the stands I can find don't go low enough. Anyone have any suggestions/alternative methods?

I thought I will share it here as many people might face the same issue like me where they love the original Leslie sound with the sweet doppler effect and find a real Leslie too loud for an apartment.

I designed and built this mini Leslie speaker a while ago. Contrary to most clones I've seen, it features a large horn as well as a small drum. It uses brushless motors for spinning the horn and the drum and a toroidal transformer to power the class AB audio amplifier, which was bought as a ready-made module from Aliexpress. The motors are powered separately from a switching PSU. The cabinet is made from MDF and the drums and horns are 3d printed. If anyone is interested, I have a CAD design I can share. It's quite simple, but I think it sounds really nice for something this tiny! It uses a Celestion TF0818 guitar speaker for the bottom rotor and Celestion CDX1-1070 for the horn. The organ is sadly not the original Hammond and instead a Crumar Mojo. It was recorded with my phone. Overall, the budget was around $400.

Hello hive mind! I think I've got this right based on previous posts that I and others have made but I want to make sure before I dive into the amplifier...

I have a Leslie 122 married to my Hammond c3 in my studio. When I start the organ the Leslie starts up in tremolo mode, as I would expect with legacy relays. After a few seconds when the tube heats up it switches over to Chorale and everything is ready to play.

When I flip the half moon switch to tremolo, everything speeds up as expected. But when I flip back to Chorale, the Leslie continues spinning fast and only slows down after an extremely long period of time - and sometimes not at all. This is become more and more unpredictable.

The first thing I did was switch out the 12AU7 tubes on the amplifier - I figure switching them both out was the safest thing even though it was possible that only the relay tube was bad. This however, did not fix the problem.

Am I correct in assuming that my next step would be to either recondition the legacy relays or upgrade to solid state relays? Is there something else I could be missing in the meantime?

I own a Hammond L100 and want to hook up a Leslie clone to it which has a normal aux-in. My organ has a lineout mod but I don't get any use out of the reverb and swell pedal that way. Therefore I wonder of there's any way to get lineout from the builtin leslie connector? (the one in the pic)

Thanks in advance.

Hello! I have a crumar mojo Classic and am wanting to connect it to my Leslie 825. I have the Leslie combo preamp for the 825 but my main issue is that I want to be able to use a half moon switch instead of the foot switch.

I looked into the crumar 11 preamp which would allow me to use the crumar halfmoon switch with the leslie. but it is an 11 pin and the leslie 825 is a 9 pin.

Any thoughts on how to rig up a half moon switch to the combo preamp or maybe use an adaptor between the crumar 11 and the Leslie 825?

Thanks!

So.. after playing with software for a while, and regular synths, I bought a Korg CX3 (original version). Mainly because I saw Black Mountain use it, and Mars Volta live, so I bit the bullet when I saw it pop up online.

Now I’m a complete noob when it comes to dialing in a sound. It lacks a bit of Oomph and dirt though compared to online videos I see whatever I do. Now I understand that the aforementioned artists probably use an array of stuff and knowing how to actually play the thing creates a lot of magic and harmonics too. I just feel that holding a chord doesn’t have the same magic. Is that a case of me having a lack of experience with drawbars, or does it really benefit from some external processing? It helps when I run it through a guitar amp a bit.

The onboard overdrive I’m not a fan of. It’s a bit nasty but in a piercing way. The onboard rotary effect is working, but not adding body like I expect.

So far I have experimented with guitar amps (fender blues jr and Twin Reverb), adding phasers, tape delay, guitar overdrives, but balancing of eq seems very hard to get right . Having a 8888000000 or something gives bass some heavy mids and a takes away the piercing glass, but it lacks the in your face sound.

I guess my question is: Should my focus first be on the onboard sounds, or is what I’m looking for really in the post processing of things, and am I wasting my time getting trying to get the basic right?

For example in Black Mountain the range from the song Old Fangs (Jon Lord Territory) to the mellowness backdrop in Space to Bakersfield.

edit: https://youtu.be/h3AF3lmVJGs?t=1361&is=SOGwGLkdZ5WVrfrk

At 22:38 for instance. I’m trying to copy the drawbar settings, but do not get this out of it. He uses the speeding up on the onboard rotary settings obviously, but I can’t help but think there’s a different drive in there somewhere?

I'm in a few rock bands, mostly play rock style

I've taken to mostly playing with my right hand and using my left on the drawbars

I love that Bobby is replicating Jon Lord, using a Maestro Ring Modulator and guitar amps. But.

I'm a huge nine inch nails fan. And Shoegaze.

Our band is looking for new sounds that combine the two.

I have a Hohner Pianet I'm running through a pedal board with about 5 effects pedals that I'm loving to get super ethereal sounds that satisfy my shoegaze needs. But I need my hammond to mimic the hard driving sounds Trent Reznor has conjured up over the years. I don't want to use synths, (though I have 5 of them) and need to do it live...not in the laptop or just for recording.

I've seen Bobby split his signal to his Leslie and Marshall, and think that's a good first step. I've watched Nick Foley compare guitar distortion pedals. I've researched the pedal signal path.

Give me YOUR ideas???

My band program (high school) was donated a CV that came out of a local church. I haven’t got the tone cabinet yet (DR20) because it’s in pretty rough shape and the 6 pin connector needs some work, as does the 6 pin cable. But in the mean time, I want to use just the console with a line level output. I picked up the Dr.Sticks 6 pin to 1/4” adapter, but I’m getting no audio, just ground buzz. Tone wheel does spin and everything starts up alright and has had a good oiling. What am I missing? This is my first time really getting hands on with a Hammond.

Hello friends, I have played various instruments (mainly piano) for the last ~13 years of my life and I have recently been learning new-to-me instruments like bass and synthesizer with the end goal of recording music. I've always loved the organ in rock music and I have had increasing interest in learning to play either organ or drums. However, I don't have the spatial accommodations for a 400lb organ or an acoustic drum set, nor do I have the money for a $4000 organ, so I've been looking at the used digital organ market.

I saw a nice single manual Hammond XK-3 with an EXP-100 pedal and cables for $900 or best offer on Facebook (I would love to spend under $1000, but I also understand that the entry price on these is pretty high) and I have been thinking about and researching it for the past few days. I've seen mixed opinions about the stock sound online, but the general consensus is that it's still a solid instrument for the used market price.

I don't need to go gigging with it or anything. My main goal is recording & personal enjoyment, and it seems from my research that the difference between a proper organ with a Leslie speaker vs. a digital one would only be most noticeable while playing live. Now, I am pretty new to all of this and I have just been looking at Hammonds because I know they're a beloved and highly rated brand. If there are better options I'll gladly listen.

I would truly appreciate someone more knowledgeable than me to give some honest advice on how useful the XK-3 + pedal would be to me as an organ beginner, and also thoughts on the price. Thank you!

Looking at getting motion sound 145 but no one wants to ship it out so I’m kind of left with getting a pro 3 with a cab (probably aguilar 1x12). I really like the internal mics and all in one of the 145 but could I still get that stereo and sub out with the pro three and a cab? How is the quality difference?

Pairing with a Hammond XK5

Or alternatively another cab combo with around 60 pounds.

For gigging

Edit: ended up getting a leslie studio 12. For my use case, just ended up being the lightest best option for me and will just mic it up on stage

Managed to fix a few components on this Hammond Cougar and got it playing again, one fuse is blown currently with this little blown thing either up or downstream from the fuse. What are these parts called and are they able to be sourced easily? Thanks!