Nord Stage 4: Exploring the organ settings and creating a crunchy B3 sound 🎧
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Here is a walk through the organ settings and parameters of the Nord Stage 4. Starting with an initial sound, I create a punchy and very organic sounding B3 sound with plenty of crunch.
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Chapter:
00:00 - 00:30 Intro, Initial sound
00:30 - 01:22 Global settings
01:22 - 01:51 Rotary speaker
01:51 - 02:11 Close mic
02:11 - 03:11 Full stop
03:11 - 04:13 Vibrato/Chorus
04:13 - 04:45 Horn angle settings
04:45 - 05:23 Fiddling around
05:23 - 06:41 Percussion
06:41 - 08:19 Reverb settings
08:19 - 09:20 Overdrive
09:20 - 11:02 EQ and Amp Sim
11:02 - 12:11 Final Fiddling
Very nice, thanks! Gonna put this in a B3-program on my Stage 4
Thanks for your kind feedback!
sounds good! 👍
Thanks! OK, it's no HX3 and no XK5, but in rock music context I actually prefer the Nord "B3" to my UHL organ.
yeah!
I always use my tube amped Tornado (or Motion Sound rotary) on stage, so almost all (not all🙂) clones sounds good 🙂
@@marcoballa Nothing beats a real "Leslie" 👍
Did they ever add back the rotor/horn balance setting ?
No, unfortunately not (until now). There are only settings for horn/rotor speed and acceleration, key click and leakage, and in the latest revision a "close mic" button. I never understood why they limited the organ settings so extremely in their "flagship". At least the organ does sound quite well despite these quirks.
No Close Mic nor Poly B3 percussion functions in prior NS4 versions :(
Oh, I didn't know. And I assume there is no possibility to access these functions in another way (menu)? Whereas the poly percussion is some kind of "gimmick" (because classic Hammonds don't offer this), the close mic is really helpful - almost necessary - to get a more present Leslie effect.
And I totally agree that it's a shame that Clavia offers less possibilities to adjust the organ sound in their "flagships" than in the Electro series. Never understood this limiting decision.
good! just go thru settings and let us see the display. v4 is killer!
Yes, thanks! I hope you’re able to see the parameters in the display. The video is unfortunately not as sharp as I hoped.
Its just good time gun
Great job but how about wooly bully watch now 😮
Well, that's actually not my favorite type of music. But why not 😅. Thanks anyway!
@@Spektralfarben-Musicthis person literally comments the same thing on like every video.😢
@@ryanthepianoman27 Thanks, I didn’t realize this, but it actually sounds like a troll.
I was wondering how Nord left the organ on this one…and its nice
Thanks for you comment. Although I'm not sure I've understood what you mean. Are you wondering why Nord did not improve the B3 organ compared to the Stage 3?
@@Spektralfarben-Music wondering if they had improved on the stage 3…mostly the rotary
@@steveraschella8233 Well, I had the Stage 3 before but couldn't compare them side by side (I had to sell it to be able to buy the 4). Anyway, the basic tone/sound is basically the same (incl. percussion, chorus/vibrato section, rotary drive). They even limited the global organ settings compared to the Stage 3, but added the "close mic" button and the "Angle" function. All in all most listeners wouldn't notice any difference at all. I'm slightly happier with the overall B3 sound of the NS4 when using the "close mic" with the right EQ settings than I was before with the version 3. But perhaps this is "psychological" ;)
I often wanted to tell the people at Clavia/Nord to implement the HX3 engine from Keyboardpartner into the Stage, Electro and also a new Nord C3D organ - this would be a real game changer and again a much more serious competition with Hammond and Viscount.
@@Spektralfarben-Music that rotary change is profound…gotta sell
some keyboards!
@@steveraschella8233 I actually sold 3 keyboards to buy the Stage 4 Compact - I don't regret it.
Very Pricy... off the charts, unfortunately can only consider yamaha.