how do the drawbars on a hammond b-3 go.

[darrin_h2000]

I just picked up a hammond b-3 from an elderly lady who is going into a rest home. its a vintage 73 done in mohogony.

all i had to do is haul it off. and there isnt even a scratch on it.

but i dont know how to do the drawbars to get that hard blues sound. anyone out there use one of these or know of any links i could go to. so i can learn .

 

[Krakit]

What a loaded question!

For the mostpart, you need to experiment a lot for all the kinds of sounds you can make with this instrument. There is truly no right or wrong configuration, with the exception of no drawbars at all (unless you have a great deal of click from dirty contacts).

As a guidline, I'll tell you how I get my best sounds. You can try that as a jump off point and work from there.

I always pull the first and last two drawbars all the way out.

Then arrange the ones in the middle in an arch. Like you might do with an EQ.

I usually set up like that as my standard configuration and fool around from there.

Have fun.

 

[Shailat]

First question.... would you like to sell ?.


Drawbars - ther are found in sets of 9.
Each drawbar has a number that represents the lenth of an organ pipe that makes the sound of certain overtones.

You can pull them out to one of 9 positions indicated by the numbers 0-8.

The first 2 draws are the lower freq's while the 8' is the fundemental pitch. the four draws 8',4',2-2/3, 2' are the foundation group while the rest are the high freq's.

A setting of 00 0000 000 means that the draws are all pushed in totaly (no sound unless you have the percussion engaged).
88 8888 888 means they are pulled out all the way sounding like a church organ.