Hammond XK-2, is it as good as the reviews say?

[mik...@freewwweb.com]

Any Hammond XK-2 users here? Does this instrument really sound 99
percent like the orginal B3/C3 like the reviews say?

Mike
P.S.
Hammond site is at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hammond_suzuki/Default.htm

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[dave jackson]

I'd love to know too. I play an XB-2 with a Freakbeat band and it sounds OK,
but I've never stood in a room while I or someone else cranks out the full
100% on the real deal.

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[tb2...@my-deja.com]

Are any of these reviews online? How does this stack up against the
xb2 the hammond site doesn't really say.

In article <7q1dmd$3t7$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,

[el...@westworld.com]

In article <7q1km7$ddh$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

tb2...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Are any of these reviews online? How does this stack up against the
> xb2 the hammond site doesn't really say.

The old XB-2? That thing sucked hard. The Roland VK-7 totally killed it.

BUT..

I recently had the chance to A/B a VK-7 and an XK-2. Let's just say the
XK-2 made the Roland sound like a sample-based synth.

E

[---GT---]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:10:08 GMT, mik...@freewwweb.com wrote:

>Any Hammond XK-2 users here? Does this instrument really sound 99
>percent like the orginal B3/C3 like the reviews say?

Would anyone know the differences between the XB-1 and the XK-2? They
look exactly the same. It's like the XK-2 is a renamed XB-1, because
the name XB-1 sounded less than XB-2 while the XB-1 was newer and
better.

[mik...@freewwweb.com]

In article <7q1km7$ddh$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
tb2...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Are any of these reviews online? How does this stack up against the
> xb2 the hammond site doesn't really say.
>

The Keyboard Magazine B3 Shootout review:
http://www.keyboardmag.com/features/b3shootout/b3shootout.shtml

The XK-2 won in overall Sound Quality, Leslie Simulation, Playability
It did not win first place in sound quality and playability

Mike

[mik...@freewwweb.com]

I wrote:

The XK-2 won in overall Sound Quality, Leslie Simulation, Playability
It did not win first place in sound quality and playability

Correction: it did win first place for playability because it redesigned
the keys from synth-type to waterfall type (just like the B3)

Sorry for the mistake.

[tb2...@my-deja.com]

Anybody know the street price on this puppy. Neither Daddys or Guit.
Center carry this thing in my neck of the woods, and would like to know
if its in my range, before I travel to see it.

[Stinker]

But the most important categories were won by the Voce V5. I believe it was
authenticity, and b a l l s...

mik...@freewwweb.com wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> The XK-2 won in overall Sound Quality, Leslie Simulation, Playability
> It did not win first place in sound quality and playability
>
> Correction: it did win first place for playability because it redesigned
> the keys from synth-type to waterfall type (just like the B3)
>
> Sorry for the mistake.
>
> Mike
>

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[Andrew P. Mullhaupt]

Stinker <m...@starnetinc.com> wrote in message
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> But the most important categories were won by the Voce V5. I believe it
was
> authenticity, and b a l l s...

I'm not surprised. When I left one band they replaced me with this wild guy
who was both an electrical engineer and old keyboard (we didn't call them
"vintage" in 1978) fan. He's in demand as both a Hammond, Rhodes and Wurli
tech (with emphasis on Hammond) as well as a designer for Voce.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

[Andrew P. Mullhaupt]

Andrew P. Mullhaupt <amul...@nospam.ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:7q7ajj$6...@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com...

I'm even less surprised now that I checked out

http://www.keyboardmag.com/features/b3shootout/b3shootout.shtml

The guy I was talking about is Dave Amels, who plays the Voce sound
examples. I had no idea he had a book _25 Hammond Licks You Must Know_.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

[Zeb]

I'm not a hammond player, but a friend of mine is a total hammond
FREAK.
He said they're good, but for the purists, the attack doesn't
spit and variate on each key like the real thing, on lead runs.

[The Rastaman]

I found a floor model of the XK-2 (Hammond) at Professional Sound and
music (or something like that) in San Diego. Bought it. I liked it,
and I replaced my VK-7. I just thought it was ballsier. Bought a
Motion Sound speaker there too.

Great store.

Mike

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:44:37 -0500, Stinker <m...@starnetinc.com>
wrote:

>But the most important categories were won by the Voce V5. I believe it was
>authenticity, and b a l l s...
>