Vox Continental - here it is

pink elefant · Post by **pink elefant** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:08 am

http://www.voxamps.com/VoxContinentalKeyboards

Looks great even with the ugly stand

what do you think:
what kind of A-pianos?
Nutube not only for organs?

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:14 pm

Whoever designed that stand need sacking!

I'd like to look at more info on the continental but when I click on more to display the details safari on sierra hangs and need force killing.

Off to find an iPad to try it...

narf · Post by **narf** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:41 pm

billysynth1 · Post by **billysynth1** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:59 am

Thanks for the info gents.

Nice to see NuTube implemented in the Vox

Billy.

iowagold · Post by **iowagold** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:53 am

cool vox demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Smp1y1_ul0

Post by **Sharp** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:25 am

A glass of wine and your sorted.

nitecrawler · Post by **nitecrawler** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:42 am

Sharp wrote:A glass of wine and your sorted.

LOL Too young for the sixties eh Sharp?

Post by **Sharp** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:56 am

Grew up a kid of the 80's. Raised on Pet Shop Boys, A-ha, Jean Michel Jarre and everything else electronic.

The only place I would hear Organ sounds is on Sundays in Church.

Sharp.

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:27 pm

Ol' sixties kid here. I'd rather this new board look identical to the original - reverse keys an' all.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:42 pm

Sharp wrote:Grew up a kid of the 80's. Raised on Pet Shop Boys, A-ha, Jean Michel Jarre and everything else electronic.

The only place I would hear Organ sounds is on Sundays in Church.

Sharp.

40% of the sounds on Oxygene and Equinoxe are a home-organ (The Emininet 310)

Have a listen to the organ work on Rick Wakeman's "White Rock" album (last track) - just one example of pretty cool organ work by an otherwise known synth player.

Cory Henry is also an amazing organ player of today (but again, as with Rick Wakeman using a Hammond B3).

All that said, the few classic songs aside using the Vox Continental, it is in general a pretty awful sounding instrument!. They were the poor-man's organ of the '60s and of woeful build quality.

This release looks like using the name only to compete with the Nord Electro / Stage market.

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:59 pm

narf wrote:<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MBzBGLuPIcY" frameborder="0"></iframe>

I liked the bit at 2:10+.

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 6:03 pm

^^ True, Kevin. But before Hammonds became in more widespread use with typical 60s groups, Continentals were a mainstay (I had a Watkins Telstar myself, yikes

). And it's true they were pretty awful in general, but they were very much 'of their time' and, as I think you were perhaps suggesting, songs like House of the Rising Sun and some of the Dave Clark Five's stuff just wouldn't have been the same without the Vox.

Don't want to spoil your supper, but imagine A Whiter Shade of Pale with a Continental.

If you think the Continental was bad, Farfisa Compact Duo organs were in common use, also.

Back then, prior to portable organs, as a keyboard player you were stuck with whatever piano happened to be at the venue. There's some horror stories there.

iowagold · Post by **iowagold** » Sun Sep 03, 2017 10:48 am

lol giner
yea the 60's were interesting!!
you never knew what you were going to have to play at some venues.

power is still an issue at most of the places to play!!
lol
we never plug in to house power!!
we bring our own gens on the trailer!!

after loosing a vintage amp in the 1970's due to surge we have our own power...

but the sounds on the old cheap keys were what made the 60's bands sound!!
now that is what we are trying to get back to...
harsh class c tube amp sound of over drive browned out dirty growl!
Hammond, and more in this class!!
this new solution is cool for a gig unit!!
I have been watching the you tube videos on the sounds...
not bad for a late model unit!!
hard to make the cheap sounds of yesteryears!

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Sun Sep 03, 2017 2:15 pm

Only time we had an issue with house power was a hick bar in Millet, Alberta where everything in the place seemed to come off one line

Funniest thing I ever saw was many years ago on a USAF base in England where this good ol' country boy turned up and ran his 'hacked' Fender amp off a 12V car battery

because "I don't trust no goddam grid power!"

True what you say about how folks pay big bucks now to get those old 'classic' sounds. Something perversely funny about that.

nitecrawler · Post by **nitecrawler** » Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:41 pm

It is weird to see all the "retro" product in the keyboard industry in the last seven or eight years. Having lived and played back then; I find it strange to want to go back to that exclusively. Trust me, it was a big hassle dealing with electronic keyboards back then. RFI interference, broken tines, power surges; you name it and it happened. Glad to have the keys I have today.