Dan Hemmer and his M3

[lloydjrose]

I just discovered him today playing with Steve Gadd. Incredible bass coming from his M3 pedals, great tone overall in addition to very cool playing. My M-100's pedals always sounded like farts--no idea where he's getting this tone from. I know, it's not the instrument, it's the player...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89L9-HJFG2I

[lloydjrose]

also, how does the Leslie horn always stop in the correct spot?

[geoelectro]

also, how does the Leslie horn always stop in the correct spot?

Normally the horn stops randomly. I suspect that's the case here. In some shots it appears to stop, pointing at the mic, but is it the horn that is sounding? Since only one side sounds it may as well be the "wrong" side. Also, having the horn pointing at the mic isn't necessarily the correct spot. Listening to the sound from a Leslie reflecting off surfaces adds some diffusion to the sound and in person, some spacial properties.

I noticed the bass was being mic'd through the bass port and not the rotor. I normally react to that as being wrong but realize if you're playing bass you may not want the bass having heavy modulation on it. The bass from that port will have next to no rotor effect on it.
Great playing...I enjoyed.

Geo

[enor]

That M-3 sounds every bit as fat as a console organ.. I want one even more now!

[Sweet Pete]

We wanted to keep the 'wowowow' out of bass guitar frequencies on a recent recording.Placing the woofer mic at the rectangular bass port will do a great job of keeping 315hz-1K
in there for some inertia on speed changes without destroying the lowest octave of the material with unwanted modulations.
Much better to know mic placement than to start experimenting with EQ.I very much trust the ears of the fine folks at Afterlife Studios,formerly Mushroom Recorders.

Many of my favorite recordings feature the M3.I sure like mine,and trust the depth of the pedals on the posters link will disprove any perception of their 'inferior' bass.
If a woofer in a Leslie can survive all 8's lower manual C7#9 middle octaves and a simultaneous low C pedal it's good to go.Most consoles can't puke out that *hit!
None of my -3 consoles will do that.Add the poorman's FB and it's enough upper sizzle for me.Lower manual has already more foldback than other spinets,all 8's sound fine there!
People give them away and part them out.I could load the van with one every day.80% of a real B3 free every day of the week.Even the volume drop mod on M3 perc works the same!