PUBLISHED: Oct 07, 2013
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Check out Part II here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL31HuS1RYs
The song up top is from the release Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute to Big John Patton: http://tinyurl.com/ktyz2ku
Jim Alfredson reviews the Mini Vent (for organ) from Neo Instruments. The Mini Vent is a smaller, less expensive version of the original Ventilator rotary speaker simulator. It features two user-definable presets, stereo output, rugged build quality, silent switches, and all the tone that made the original Ventilator so great.
Oct 9, 2013 Addendum: Guido Kirsch of Neo Instruments emailed me to let me know that my claim of the guitar Mini Vent lacking the amp simulation is not correct. Here's what he wrote:
"Although seems logical and I had planned it this way, Gary Gand convinced me that for lead playing the cab sim is essential and he absolutely wanted it. So the 2 programmable parametersi n the guitar Mini Vent are Cab Sim on/off and Drive Intensity. Other than that the differences are in the fixed Speed / Acceleration and Balance settings."
So the Mini Vent is still voiced better for organ, but the regular Mini Vent does have the amp simulation.
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