Marcos, I appreciate your response! As for monitoring, I use in ear monitors by JH Audio. We have a monitor engineer that adjusts all my stage levels for me. Generally I’ll have all the levels dialed in during rehearsals and everything stays the same throughout a tour. On the last tour I had everything but the Hammond going into a UAD Apollo 8p interface I borrowed from my studio. The interface passed 8 separate outputs to the house DI’s. I did this so I could hear my whole rig (minus the Hammond) in my in-ears without bothering anyone, by just plugging my in-ears into the interface rather than the radio pack. That way I could, for example, tweak blended sounds without having to ask the monitor guy to bring up my stage mix in the in-ears. It’s like having a 1U rack mount digital mixer, plus I can use the UAD preamp emulations to add more character.

@@andyburtonmusic thank you for the detailed reply

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Below it on the back is a Wurlitzer, they seem to have added the vibrato speed mod on it...3 buttons...

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Simon's Buddy I understand your point very well. If all this gig called for was B3, I’d have a much simpler rig. However, my experiences of over 20 years of playing B3 & Leslie tell me that it’s often not anywhere near as simple as “plug in the B3, cable it together with the Leslie and Voila - on the air.” For accuracy you’ve got to modify that statement with: “The chorus vibrato is motor boating...the upper manual needs a busbar job...the Leslie top rotor just stopped spinning on the middle of a song...oh that’s right, I forgot, the 8’ drawbar on the A# setting for the lower manual doesn’t work...” ...etc., etc. In reality unless you have a tip top B3 AND a tip top tech traveling with you, it ain’t gonna be as simple as you remember. I finally got sick of dealing with unreliable B3’s and Leslie’s. As to the complexity of the other aspects of my rig, sure, it’s a lot to learn, but try covering all those bases with just a B3 - no can do. Don’t get me wrong, I agree there’s a lot to be said for simplicity. And for the way music was made in the past. But I have to live and work in 2019 and I enjoy making the most of what’s great about the present. To me it’s worth it.

Sorry to disturb you, but in your demonstration, what is the Haken Continuum controlling?

Your post echoes my present thoughts. Used to be it was all about playing after getting your bandmates to help you load in...🤣🤣🤣. Now not only do you have to be able to create all these different noises on a keyboard, you also have the technical acumen and computer savvy to create and manipulate those noises...dayum. Just doesn't seem like being a keyboard player in a Pop/Rock band is a lot of fun any more...

Infidel14? , I couldn’t disagree more! As Herbie Hancock said back in the 70’s, “the more buttons, the better I like it”! I’m 63 and have been gigging since I was 13, and I LOVE the tech and options I have available these days. You can always just get a stage piano and a B3 clone and away you go just like the old days.

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Little Steven (with a "t") is the band leader. (Sorry if you were just joking). In chronological order he's known for: member of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, actor on the Sopranos, Little Steven's Garage (garage rock radio show originally in NYC, maybe pre-dates Sopranos?), and other acting and musical stuff. :)

I'm guessing the virtual instruments he's triggering on his laptop take up a good amount of space

This rig has many redundancies. XK5 is not needed, the Nord would do just fine. Laptop not needed, his other keyboards have those sounds. He is trying for too many "textures" when he has many other musicians in the band adding to the mix. And the Continuam is just plain not needed. But when you have tons of money, just spend spend spend 💰💸

Stefan Turton - Of course it is. The Nord excels at providing certain piano and synth textures that I need, and is an excellent master MIDI controller. Sure, it can also provide good B-3-type organ sounds, but it does not do that as well as the XK5 & Leslie 3300 combo, which only does organ and nothing else. It also has the B-3 look, which is a requirement for this gig - which the Nord doesn’t. Before the XK5 I was using a vintage B-3 and a Leslie 122, which at the time was itself a gig requirement. Bottom line: Everything in my rig is needed in some way for the gig, or else it wouldn’t be there. I hope I’ve adequately answered all the second guessing / criticism, and I also hope I’ve done so constructively. If anyone has any other questions or observations I’m happy to answer as best I can.

@@markjaylandes clearly never played an XK 5 the nord does a good hammond sound but i can tell the difference between the two. My nord sounds great but put my hammond next to it and the nord sounds weak

@@TheMRmadhatt YOU and I can tell the difference. But the normal people going to the concert cannot.

@@markjaylandes That is true but as the player It makes all the difference to me the sound and feel of the XK 5 surpasses that of it predecessor the XK3c and that of the nord