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Chapter 26 EVB3 471
Effect Chain and Effects Bypass
Effect Chain
The EVB3’s signal flow is as follows: the organ’s signal runs through the equalizer, wah
wah and distortion effects. You can choose between four different signal flow routings
for the equalizer, wah wah and distortion effects in the Effect Chain pull-down menu.
This treated signal is then fed into Reverberation and finally passed to the Rotor effect.
A “classic” B3 patch would be: an EQ’ed organ, plugged into a wah wah pedal,
amplified by an overdriven Leslie. Select EQ-Wah-Dist.
The sound of the overdrive changes if the input signal is being filtered—be it by the
EQ, or the wah wah. If you patch the EQ before the overdrive, the sound of the
overdrive becomes much more flexible. The output signal of the distortion effect
always contains high frequency content. If you want to suppress these frequencies, the
wah wah must be the final effect in the chain—EQ-Dist-Wah.
If you wish to create a “screaming” sound (achieved by distorting the wah wah output),
you can minimize any “harshness” by choosing the Wah-Dist-EQ routing.
You can suppress the brutal overtones of extreme distortions with two filters: Select
Dist-EQ-Wah.
Effect Bypass
The Distortion, Wah, and EQ effects can be bypassed separately for the Pedal register.
Set Effect Bypass to Pedal to do so. This avoids the entire bass portion of your organ
being suppressed by the wah wah. It also avoids undesirable intermodulation artefacts,
when utilizing the overdrive effect.
If you select None, the entire output of the organ is processed, as if you had plugged
the B3’s mono output into a Leslie cabinet.
Equalizer
As a Logic user, you won’t have any questions about the EQ Low, EQ Mid and EQ High
controls. The EQ algorithm is derived from Logic’s Fat EQ. EQ Level is a master EQ
volume control, allowing you to specify any gain level to the distortion effect. See
“Effect Chain and Effects Bypass” on page 471 for details on effects routing options.