Just the best Jim... watched this several times now. Would love a follow up video that does dive into the custom tone wheels and the different contact envelope settings.

I watched the entire video, and I don’t even own an XK5! Jim is just _that engaging._

Great camera work! This isn't just tips and tricks. It's entire course from the ground up! Thanks Jim!

I just bought an XK5 for our band. I am not going to be the one playing it, but as the band leader, there are certain sounds I want coming from the instrument. This has been one of the absolute best tutorials on KZfaq. Absolutely fantastic. I tried to understand the manual that came with the XK5 and was frustrated within 5 minutes of opening it. You have been a life saver!!! Thanks for this video!

I wonder if there is an Academy Award for best instructional video. If there is, you should receive it! Thanks for your amazing effort to bring us up to speed!

That is a BEAUTIFUL organ!! I have an M3 and I love vintage but I'm definitely intrigued.....😍😳

Most helpful video ever! All tone and knowledge. Thank you!

Very informative and extremely well done. Thank you!

Jim, thank you so much for doing this instruction tutorial video ... it's needed!

Awesome and extremely helpful tutorial!

This is a fantastic recommendation for the XK5. If Jim has this in his own personal studio then you know it's great.

excellent explanation on X35, nothing like it elsewhere for clarity and dedication. Thanks a lot

Awesome work Jim. Thank you.

Jim-Thank you, thank you, thank you. So informative and well done!

Jim, Thank you I have learned so much from this video and other demonstrations over the years. Sincerely, Alan

Excellent instruction! Thank you!

Give away all your great secrets, all they need now is 25+ years practice to get half as good as you Jim.

Hello JIM thanks for doing this VIDEO. I just got my Hammond XK5 PRO SERIES set up and I am already Loving this video.

This is just wonderful.

This is a great video. Very, very helpful. Thank you.

I just came across this video. Being an old guy who used to play a B-3 through a 925 leslie (after hauling 2 145's with twin sets of horns on each that were exposed since we cut the tops off to get more volume) I am really impressed of the sound and your depth of your explanation as to how to make this thing sound unbelievable. If I was still playing, I would definitely buy one of these and save what's left of my 71 year old back! Thanks for taking the time to do such a great job.

Thanks Jim, this video shows EXACTLY what I needed to know! Very helpful!

Thank you, Jim! Just got mine (bench and music rack still on back order). I am hoping you do another video on this fabulous instrument!

THANK YOU JIM! Please do more explanations of this immense instrument...saved me a ton of time as I bought my xk5 used w no manual

Hi Jim! Excellent video! Thanks for creating this. We met at Winter NAMM 2018. I bought my XK5 in July 2018 and have used it extensively. I love it, but have had a tough time programming it. The manual seems confusing. I have successfully figured out a lot of what you covered here but no where near as in depth. You have added much more clarity to the XK5 for me. Thank you!

Thanks Jim

These clone wheels are getting better and better every day.

love the XK5 that .. and a 145 are all you need

Awesome!

Genius.....Jim....Thanks

Thank you!

Great love it

Jim, outstanding video. You cover soup to nuts.

Great video very comprehensive and well presented.Would like to know your settings to get a nice pedal base sound and how you set up to maximize the Leslie to make it sound great. Thanks Jim

Excelente la explicación nada parecido ni en otro lugar, por su amplitud claridad y profundidad. gracias gracias.

I'm definitely planning on ordering Hammond Xk5 in 2022

Got my XK5 yesterday and am digging in...let the tweaking begin! Thanx for this video really helps out figuring out what Suzuki was figuring out with this recreation. So so many places to set things. Really didn’t like the Leslie effect at all until I began to tweak it. Do you ever give away your settings? That’d be sweet and save a bunch of time since you understand and are such a master at it. Again thanx and more, more...

Thank you Jim! I love the informative video! One thing I want to ask you is when you do another video, please focus on the way the lower manual presets behave when different banks are selected on the upper manual and it is kinda confusing as to saving and maintaining selected sounds in the lower presets when I change banks in the upper manual. I'm sure you could clarify so much if you could please focus on the lower manual presets. Also, do you share drawbar registrations by chance and is there detailed info on Hammond's website regarding drawer registrations categorized to different genres of music, namely country, spiritual, easy listening, etc. that a person can utilize? Again, a GREAT BIG thank you Jim! Tim

Fuckin great video man. Need more pripper tutorials like this for us geat heads. Love it.

Always really appreciate your videos!!! Very helpful. I purchased by Neo Vent II from Bruce Wahler at Ashby because of your videos - what an awesome product the Vent is and likewise the service from Ashby! Would you be able to review and explain other products, such as the HX3, GSi, etc., products?

When the SK3 is coming?. It's been a long time! and there're many needed features that could be implemented. Thank you

I think I figured out how to use my extra voices via the iPad...Just need to use the EXT mode template on MIDI, assign a channel and then turn local off...Can you make this a Preset so you can quickly go back and forth between the different voices...Still need to run a 1/8 adapter to 1/4 out to PA from iPad but it should work! This is awesome!!!

When I first worked thru this entire tutorial, I mistakenly thought that this was a GLOBAL thing, but discovered that when I changed to a different preset that all of the associated parameters that I had painstakingly set didn't match what I had set up while working thru the tutorial. So, as a solution, I am going through all the settings for one preset, and then copy that preset to all the other presets. Then, I should have my keyboard set to the GLOBAL values I prefer and the only difference between each preset will be the drawbars selected. Am going to explore this to see how it works.

Jim, this is a fantastic video. I'm not an organ player, but once my situation changes, I hope to get an XK5 full setup, sans Leslie. On the other hand, I AM an Arranger keyboard player (not good, but hey, I have fun). What I really would like to see is a MIDI setup using an Arranager Keyboard, or something like the Roland BK-7M. Specifically, the XK3C had buttons for external control, but I'd like to see how the XK-5 would work with that. I'm assuming that changes would need to be set on the Preset keys. Also, I'm wondering how you might send the pedal signals to the keyboard, so you might use an acoustic bass sound from the keyboard, or electric bass, or whatever. Finally, since you don't want to send those sounds to a real Leslie, maybe a setup with a pair of powered monitor speakers and something like a Mackie Big Knob+. I really enjoyed this video. There's a guy selling XK-5s on Reverb, and charges $200 more for the 'custom setup', this video is going to put that out of business! Now, if I could just play as well as you, but as we all know, the only way to get there is 'practice, practice, practice!'

Hi Jim, thanks so much for this great and deep insight into more than the XK5. It also gives me great pleasure to hear and see you play the organ. As I am no pro and do the Hammond-ing just as a hobby, it's sometimes hard to learn new things and dig deeper. Your video really helped me to understand more about it. I bought my XK5 in 2018 and instantly fell in love with Betty (that's how I call her). I run a Santana tribute band called "Jingo-Lo-Ba" ( www.jingoloba.band/ , sorry, it's all in the German language) and am a great admirer of Gregg Rolie's early B3 organ work, especially on "Caravanserai". I have a very special question that could be interesting to other people, too: Is it possible to set a Hammond pedal (EXP50J) so, that it only controls the volume (really only the volume, nothing else)? I would like to use the volume pedal (in addition to the Expression Pedal EXP100F) as a second pedal with the left foot to adjust the volume while playing with both hands. I have tried a lot but not succeeded yet. Many thanks in advance for your answer and thanks again for the incredibly helpful video. I hope you play a concert in Germany in the Munich area so I can hear you playing live.

Nice Hammond built in these editable parameters making the KX-5 an editable, customizable organ application but also includes this performance keyboard with it's waterfall mechanism, rounded keys, etc... Nice studio piece imo. How would you compare this and choose between this and the newer Hammond models of the SKX Dual Keyboard model and the SKPro? I know these newer models add other keyboard sounds and take away the waterfall mechanical keyboard. Though the SKPro advertises it uses the same organ model as the KX-5. Any thoughts? As a layman, I'd still choose the KX-5 for authenticity and editable control. Edited: Okay I'd buy this for the split keyboard Jimmy Smith decay lower keyboard decay sound. That is really happening for that style shown at 51:00. Amazing.

this thing sound far superior than my sk2

Is it possible to have the internal digital leslie engage only on the top manual and NOT the bottom? I'd love it for the top manual but not for bass notes on the bottom manual

QUESTION: Jim can you plug the power of the XK 5 into a POWER CONDITIONER???

Hi Jim! Thank you for this video! I received my XK-5 yesterday. Love it, but not loving the factory default settings. As a person who dreads going down the rabbit hole of tweaking sounds, could you publish (or sell) a core set of parameter values (key click, leakage, preamp, percussion) for the gigging jazz organist? Again, I’d be more than happy to pay for the service.

Hi Jim - Awesome video which in no small part contributed to my getting my XK5 a few days ago. Quick question for you: is there a way to use a sustain pedal (i.e. sustain a chord with the pedal indefinitely while pedal is pressed)? I cannot seem to find this anywhere.. if so, what pedal do you recommend? Thank you!!!!!!!

Thank you Jim, as always, a great insight to this fantastic Hammond! QUESTION, is there sheet music for 'Funk Fo You' .. I have been playing around with it by ear. Thanks again!

The B3, C3 & A100 were identical organs except for the cabinet styles and the built-in amplification on the A100. So, with that in mind, why do some of the XK5 menu settings suggest that these three instruments sound different?

Cheers Jim this is brilliant. One question I have is my foot switch only works intermittently, it works once on startup and then very sporadically after that, any ideas? It’s set up correctly.

Jim...great video. I also watch you live shows each week. I can't seem to find Hammond Sks and Xk's around and would like to know if the keys (black and white) on these keyboards are the same measurements of the vintage A,B, and C Hammond models? To me size matters? Thanks and you're an awesome Hammond Player...

I don't own an XK-5 but I just enjoy watching these kinds of demo videos. I have a question: in this video the XK-5 has 2 keyboards but I've also seen many images of it where it has only one, but it still has some buttons saying "lower" and "upper". So does it have 1 or 2 keyboards?

Key Click is a "Consonant Sound" Like the attack of a wind blown pipe. :)

Nice Jim! Still have your SY99 BTW?? Best 😎

@Jim Alfredson Does the XK5 have a pipe organ sound in it? I noticed the word PIPE show up in your menu section and have seen it on other videos as well.

Hey Jim. Awesome... Just a quick question. What's the first tune that plays behind the intro?

Thanks Jim...Is there anyway to use my iPad and the usb to host for piano sounds or say synthmaster etc?

I am getting the XK5 soon. How do you get the left hand bass or foot bass to come thru a separate bass speaker and not the Leslie? How do you set that up?

Hi Jim, could you do a similar video for the XK1C?

Is there a sheet music rear for this organ?

Why would you buy a CLONE of this Hammond when you can own the XK 5 PRO SERIES for just a few $$$ more ............ HAMMOND created a BEAST here. NO OTHER CLONE can compare to this XK 5

I just bought an XK-5 and saw your video. Can I buy your presets?

I own an XK3c which i gig with every week, I bought an XK5 pro last year which gives a way better sound and playing experience however after watching this video it's opened a whole new chapter in setting up and playing. The organ was used when i bought it and did come with a manual but... Reading the manual is well an admission of defeat and doesn't quite explain things in the way Jim does in this video

Can the XK5's bass sound be routed to a separate bass amp like you can with the new SKX Pro and not thru the Leslie?

Please, play the song, " SUNNY ".

A compressor does not make the soft parts louder while making the loud parts quieter. It makes everything quieter.

Super, mais hélas étant français, je ne comprends pas un mot, et les tutos en français n’existent pas

Lol one of these comments says 1 month ago when this video was uploaded yesterday....🤔🤔

Have video in Spanish?

Hablas mucho y no muestras lo mas importante que es el sonido

I stumbled on to this. Are you serious ???? You used to have to be nothing but a musician to play organ. Now you have to be a space shuttle pilot. Key clicks? Routing parameters?? Jimmy Smith didn't need all that garbage. Just give me the talented musician and the pure keyboard..