[HAM] Phat & Warm/ wasJimi Hendrix & Curtis Knigh

[Randal Muir]

Hmmm. This is an interesting one.  "Warmth" is a very subjective term as 
applied to sound and has many and varied definitions. Most people have no 
problem with the term warmth as it applies to temperature. In music, I think 
we would be better off describing things in eq, saturation and compression 
terms. A lot of sonic differences can be attributed to slight variations in 
eq.  A guitarist friend of mine can pull a great jazz sound thru a PA with 
only a boss eq pedal.  Another guitarist friend of mine pulls a "warm"sound 
with his tube amp that to me is just excessive in bass and low mids.  It all 
depends on the depth of the listener's aural perception. Are they just 
hearing eq, or are they also hearing the compression and harmonic distortion 
components due to valve amp behaviour?

It would be an interesting experiment to swap the amps over in these two 
hammonds.

cheers -Randal

>
> This is an argument that will not be suppressed.  Just yesterday I was
> arguing the sonic qualities of two organs - one a '61 A-100, recap
> with Trek II preamp, the other a BV recap converted to B3 status,
> percussion, split chorus/vibrato, AO-28.  The BV-3 sounded...
> warmer(?), something attributed by my worthy adversary to the fact
> that it used a tube preamp.  I believe the quote might be something
> like "You see? I think that is a perfect example of the difference
> between the solid-state and tube sound."  Very sheepishly I replied
> "Baaaahhh"!  It definitely sounded different.  One might even say
> "warmer".  Baaaaaah!
>
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