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DAMAGE
AMOUNT
CHORUS
AMOUNT
REVERB
AMOUNT
With all these effects in combination (and with all the drawbar permutations
available), this modest Vox Conti library can create a massive range of tones,
more than the original in fact!
With everything off, you get the clean sound of the Vox Conti, the equivalent of a
line out jack plugged into a good hi-fi amp. However, adding distortion, a
suitable cabinet and rotary speaker, you can really dirty the thing up such that it
sounds more like a Hammond than the transistor sound we associate with the
Conti. And you can add variable amounts of 'damage' for a bit of fun!
As always, if you come up with a combination of effects types that you like, you
can save the sound for later recall but as always, the fun is creating a sound for
any given musical situation which is easily achieved and the panels here make
the experience as close to owning the real thing as possible.
My thanks to Barry at Forgotten Keys (http://www.forgottenkeys.co.uk) for his
help with some scripting for the Effects page. Do visit his site for some serious
and inexpensive vintage action!
30/7/10
This is a curious control!
If a Vox Conti got a bit beaten up being thrown in and out
of vans, etc., when gigging or through electrical failure,
whatever, the top octave of the divide down oscillator
could 'bleed' into the signal with every semitone 'singing'
in the background. It was pretty horrible but is simulated
here for a bit of fun as a special effect. Simply turn the
control clockwise to introduce more of the 'damage'!
Sets the amount of chorus applied. Although the chorus
effect would not be invented for 15 years or so after the
introduction of the Continental, it's a good sound that
suits the sound well
Sets the amount of reverb applied.
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