... a hammond i heard?

[Bradley Baker <bbaker@digital.net>]

I was listening to the local college jazz station recently. (Is it
just me, or am I hearing them play A LOT of Hammond stuff these
days). I was listening to an unknown organ quintet - guit, sax, trump,
drum, organ, and heard something that i *think* was a tone wheel
hammond. The thing was, it seemed to have an attack like a piano, with
a looong decay and with more vibrato than chorus.

Here's what it sounded like was being done:

1. The registration was the basic 888000000 type, very dark, with 2nd
percussion, and the percussion was very much louder than the
percussionized tones. This could be done with drawbars or maybe
loud/soft volume tab.

2. The percussion had a loooong decay - much longer than the normal,
about the length of a rhodes-type decay time.

3. The vibrato was more prominant than chorus, could have been done
with either strictly vib, or a custom tweak of wet/dry mix.

The effect of this was that the main sound was from the percussion
tones, with a decay time like an electric piano. After the main tone
decayed a sub tone of the basic tones an octave lower could be heard
sustained at relatively low volume.

The organ was playing quartal harmony for comping in rather long
sustained notes. It was a really nice effect and I'm gonna make a
custom perc decay to get that really long decay time.

Question: Is this a common playing style i've missed. Can someone
please comment on how prevalent this setup is?

-- 
     brad baker
     bbaker@digital.net