Hammond Skx PRO - the "famous" sound 1

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leslie and guitar amp in parallel, searching for the Jon Lord/Don Airey sound :-)

spoiler: only The Maestro could obtain that sound (for the changes made to his leslie, etc).
having said that, the principle is basically simple and now, if it is really difficult to get the Lord sound, it is relatively easier to approach the Don Airey sound (see his famous video "Gear Run" on the Tube).
it is a matter of miking a leslie and a guitar amp and mixing the signals... all very easy, except that it is impossible for a human being to sustain that kind of volume in the studio / apartment / live stage, in a era in which we tend to see "zero impact sound" stages.
so... digital simulations! and the SKX Pro seems to have been created for that kind of experiment ...
as already seen in previous posts, thanks to the special separate output of the organ generator (without leslie simulation), you can take advantage of an external leslie (see my videos with the Tornado), sending all the other sounds in stereo to the mixer through the main Left / Right outputs.
but you can also use an external guitar amp (or simulation) too, and since you can choose to output the organ signal at the same time with the internal leslie simulation from the main Left / Right outputs, the game is done: mix the two signals in a mixer and we're done 🙂.
but... SKX Pro has an "AUX IN" audio input (for putting in mp3 players, other instruments, etc.) and from there the sound is sent to the usual main Left / Right outputs... so the audio you hear in today's video comes directly from the Left / Right outputs connected to the camera.
organ with internal leslie mixed with organ with guitar amp: the signal of the latter (a very old "Speaker Simulator" pedal) is inserted into the SKX Pro AUX IN and it is mixed with the sound of the organ with the leslie ( NOT "one into the other", but one IN PARALLEL to the other).
organ's signal comes out of SKX Pro and re-enters it 😀😃 (after being processed) and is mixed with everything else.
result to be perfected (also given the superior quality of some Chinese pedals currently on the market that simulate a 4X12 Marshall much better than the old 90s pedal I used)...

1. leslie sound comes from the SKX Pro main Left/Right outputs.
2. direct organ sound comes from the dedicated SKX Pro output and goes into a guitar amp/cabinet simulator pedal, than the sound from the pedal goes to the SKX Pro "AUX IN"!
(so the SKX Pro works as a mixer itself and the complete mixed sound comes from the L/R outputs)

all Hammond Suzuki videos here:
   • Hammond Suzuki  

other examples for Leslie and guitar amp IN PARALLEL:
   • HAMMOND ORGAN ROCK SOUND test - EXAMPLES  
   • Useless summer experiment - 2