Different style hammer tips VV audio samples?

[Skiroy]

Hey guys I am in the market for new tips and intrested in the VV graduated or angled tips. I hear they sounds different. Does anyone have any audio sames of each. A comparison would be great. Particularly intrested in hybrid wood/plastic hammer version but and samples are appreciated.

[rhodesjuzz]

Good idea. I'll share a clip asap of my graduated tips on soundcloud.

--Roy

[Skiroy]

Great!

[Skiroy]

anybody else?

[Alan Lenhoff]

I'm not sure what reliable/useful information you can get out of these recordings. If you hear different tips played on different pianos, the sounds you ultimately like may be the result of factors that have nothing to do with the tips.  (Voicing, tines, the amps and recording techniques used,  etc.) Even if you found one person who could record both kinds of tips on the same piano, the tips might not sound the same on your piano.

Why don't you contact Vintage Vibe (or some other vendors that sell hammer tips, such as Retrolinear) and ask to buy some samples of each kind of tip?  That's the only way you're really going to know how they sound on your piano.

Alan

[Skiroy]

true but if I hear A piano I like the tone with whatever tips I can rest assured that if I buy them its at that point just a matter of setup which I plan on getting done.

[Skiroy]

It will eliminate the what if factor for me.

[rhodesjuzz]

Hey guys I am in the market for new tips and intrested in the VV graduated or angled tips. I hear they sounds different. Does anyone have any audio sames of each. A comparison would be great. Particularly intrested in hybrid wood/plastic hammer version but and samples are appreciated.

[Skiroy]

Is there a audio clip? Is your a wood hammer hybrid or plastic? I noticed its a 76.

[Student Rhodes]

A '76 wouldn't be a hybrid hammer, unless someone made a swap.

[rhodesjuzz]

A '76 wouldn't be a hybrid hammer, unless someone made a swap.

It was actually embarrassing but here you go:
https://soundcloud.com/user-185263143/r1-1

I have to figure out to record my rhodes direct into a computer. This clip was taken with the microphone of a smartphone. Sorry for the bad audio (too much key/damper noise and dull sound).

My Rhodes has all plastic hammers with graduated tips.

-Roy

[Skiroy]

The link is gone.

[rhodesjuzz]

Sorry, I removed the clip from soundcloud because it was too embarrassing and I didn't had the time and gear to make a descent audio sample. Please give me a bit more time

--Roy

[Skiroy]

Anybody have any angled samples for a Mark I?

So would graduated tips sound closer to the original tone of mid 70s mark I?