Please note: The quality of this audio reproduction of the Wicks digital organ is limited by the quality of your computer speakers.
Following is some of the sample audio of Wicks Digital organs, to listen them just click on play button.
Either instrument can be played and heard by arrangement with Paul Stapel 607 773 1495 and/or Service Technician/Consultant Douglas Campbell (Skaneateles) 315 708 6575.
Trumpet Tune in D, David Johnson
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Final from Symphony No.1
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Liebster Jesu, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, J.S. Bach
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Panis Angelicus, Cesar Franck
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Magdalene College (Hymn)
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Hyfrydol (Hymn)
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forest Green (Hymn)
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Fountain Reverie, Percy Fletcher
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This is what a new Royal Classic installation would consist of:
A normal church-space installation would have 10 (5 dual) Crown XLS 202 amplifiers at 250 watts each, 2500 watts total), two of which supply the bass speaker system (JBL SRX 728S Dual 18″ bass-reflex subwoofer (about 2 feet by 4 feet by 3 feet) which covers the 27-220 herz(cps) frequencies and is capable of handling up to 1600 watts of continuous power, 6400 watts peak, which is about what is needed to handle the energy of the low frequencies produced by the real pipes.
The other 8 amplifiers each drive one of 8, JBL MP 412 two-way bass-reflex speakers. 50-20,000 hz, with continuous power capacity of 250 watts, 1400 watts peak.
The speakers are placed in the acoustically best locations to simulate real pipe chambers.
The amplifiers receive their signals from a sophisticated crossover network made by the German company Behringer (Model Super-X Pro CX 2310) which in turn is fed by 9 separate signals from the Console which contains the computer memory chips which in turn reproduce the actual WICKS pipe organ sounds recorded in them. The pipe sounds are recorded, one pipe at a time, from the beginning of the pipe’s speech, (you can actually hear the valve opening and the air moving into the pipe), a continuation of the pipe’s sound through many seconds of it’s natural holding pattern to the end of the sound when the valve shuts the air off to the pipe and the resultant sound due to the wind stopping in the pipe.
Theoretically, playing these recordings through the identical reproduction system as listed above should make the instrument sound as it would sound in your building, but because these sounds were recorded with a microphone, the sounds of the rooms in which it was recorded mix with the acoustics of YOUR space and thus add to (or detract from), giving you a false sense of the REAL sounds.
This would not produce the natural result of an original sound being pumped into an actual room which is why I have the portable version ready to bring to a location.
The instrument is perfect for a quality home organ although the number of speakers and amplifiers used for a church would not be as necessary in a home.
