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Hi,

I’m looking for the organ settings of “When you’re gone” from Bryan Adams/Mel C, which seems to be a tonewheel organ with some specific attack sound (?), can be heard best in the into and the verse




Does anyone have this or could let me know how to create it on an NS2 or NS3?

No one having an idea on how to create that sound on a NS2 or NS3?

Listening to the whole song I was thinking it was a synth for the percussive organ and at the very end you hear it sustained out with a chorus effect. I'm a few hundred miles from my Nord right now but would set up the background B3 first - left of the split if you have a pedal for Leslie slow/fast or right of split if you have a half moon or hit the slow/fast button. For the percussive sound I would set up a synth and start with the organ waveforms with chorus set up like you hear it at the end of the song and reverb. If I couldn't get it right with just reverb, I would play around with medium reverb and set delay for a tighter slap back. Using OSC2 you also blend in a wave an octave higher or lower if the organ wave doesn't quite get it on its own. This approach leaves slot B open if you want to add an additional synth to the sound with the same effect settings. Hope this helps, take care.

WannitBBBad wrote:Listening to the whole song I was thinking it was a synth for the percussive organ and at the very end you hear it sustained out with a chorus effect. I'm a few hundred miles from my Nord right now but would set up the background B3 first - left of the split if you have a pedal for Leslie slow/fast or right of split if you have a half moon or hit the slow/fast button. For the percussive sound I would set up a synth and start with the organ waveforms with chorus set up like you hear it at the end of the song and reverb. If I couldn't get it right with just reverb, I would play around with medium reverb and set delay for a tighter slap back. Using OSC2 you also blend in a wave an octave higher or lower if the organ wave doesn't quite get it on its own. This approach leaves slot B open if you want to add an additional synth to the sound with the same effect settings. Hope this helps, take care.

Thank you very much!! I will give it a try and see what the outcome is

Schorsch wrote:No one having an idea on how to create that sound on a NS2 or NS3?

Could be a piano (maybe an octave higher) layered onto the organ sound.

You may be right, I saw some videos from Bryan’s live performances where the keyboard player was playing a grand piano with his left hand and the Hammond with his right hand on the intro. I tried to rebuild this on my two Nord stages but am still not getting it right, will continue to try and make it (I am lousy in creating sounds )

Schorsch wrote:You may be right, I saw some videos from Bryan’s live performances where the keyboard player was playing a grand piano with his left hand and the Hammond with his right hand on the intro. I tried to rebuild this on my two Nord stages but am still not getting it right, will continue to try and make it (I am lousy in creating sounds )

Live performances are always a good starting point when you try to recreate a sound.

For this song:
When you try a basic 'rock organ' 888800000 with leslie volume turned up until it sounds just a little bit distorted when you play a chord. No chorus, percussion 3d, soft, fast. Start playing with the leslie slow and just before the singing starts, switch to fast.

For the piano sound: Use an electric grand with a slow phaser effect. You don't even need two keyboards, you can do it with a split.

Also, a bit of quite short delay on the piano.

@MvanD: thanks for this, will try it by the way, I am not looking to set it up to play it split between two keyboard, but setting it up the same way on both my NS3 and my NS2 because I use them in two different bands with different rehearsal spaces, and don’t want to haul one Stage around between these two locations

@analogika: also thanks a lot will do so as well.