[HAM] Fold back

[Bohachewsky, Andrew V.]

The older ones did go all the way down and the same tonewheels fed the
pedals.

Foldback Hammonds have "complex" (ie more complex than pure sine)
tonewheels for the pedals (so you can't just wire those to the manuals,
would sound awful).

A bass out to a separate amp can give you a little more low end if
that's what you feel you're missing - or you can craft your basslines
around the foldback point(s) to good effect.

Andy 

-----Original Message-----
From: hammond-bounces at zeni.net [mailto:hammond-bounces at zeni.net] On
Behalf Of Gene MacDonald
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:52 PM
To: hammond at zeni.net
Subject: [HAM] Fold back

Greetings...I've recently had the opportunity to sit at an A100 and
noticed the foldback on the lower manual. I didn't really care for it
and I've learned that the older model A Hammonds had a lower manual
where the notes would go all the way down which seems more appealing to
me. I'm told that the reason for the fold back is the tone generator has
only 96 tone wheels.