Precisionsound Gospel Drawbars - Manual

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Gospel Drawbars
for NI Kontakt & EXS24
There's already a bunch of tone wheel organ libraries and simulators out there, so what’s the point with
this one, you might think?
Our goal has not been to make a generic virtual recreation of an organ but to capture the character of a
unique instrument, in this case one of the first ever Hammond organ models made, a Hammond AB
from the late 1930s.
We have created a user-friendly control panel for blending a number of pre-made settings. The drawbar
settings have been carefully chosen to include both mellow standards and trebles with attitude. We
recorded all the settings through the organ’s own Leslie speaker, in stereo, which gives a warm and
pleasing colour to the sound. Gospel Drawbars has 22 recorded settings and 955 stereo wav samples in
total.
We found the Hammond AB in a chapel in Stockholm, where it’s still in use, more than seventy years
after its birth.