u/MeasurementSoft7928

I recently picked up an M3 someone was getting rid of for free. Very exciting! I have never had a real Hammond before. It needs a bit of work, but it runs and sounds pretty good! I wonder if anyone can advise me on a couple of interests I have:

Percussion isn't sounding, volume dips slightly when I try to turn on percussion tab on. I'm going to replace the 6c4 tubes and hope that fixes it, I can't really tell if any of the tubes are lighting up..
I don't notice any "key click" is my organ just old and dull or is there something I can do to pronounce it a bit?
One of the legs broke off, should I glue and screw it back on, or tear the other leg off to match? 😅

4.i like to play bass left hand, Im thinking of folding back the lower manual. Good idea?

The organ sounds a little dull over all, what tubes to replace would help brighten it up?

Edit:

6.on the C pedal, it sound dissonant, as if C# pedal is also sounding at the same time. Possibly damaged during transport? Can I just tip it back and try to bend it back?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Excited to get this organ sounding better than ever!

P.s it already has a 1/4" out box and I have a motion sound pro x3 to get it swirling 😎

Hey, does anyone have some experience with the motion sound pro3x? I just picked one up second hand and it's a pretty cool unit, however I feel it's not that loud. Of course I understand it is to be connected to a lower speaker and I have tried it with a bass amp and a keyboard amp. I have the clean volume set to 100% and just enough gain to get the sound going , but even with the gain set low, it starts to break up and distort a lot faster than I would anticipate, making 90% of the gain knob pointless noise instead of smooth overdrive

I have used the mixed output and fed it Into a keyboard amp, helping amplify it to a smoother degree. But with a stand alone bass amp, I feel it can't keep up.

Do I just have the wrong idea of this amp? Or is it just intended to be quiet and then reamped through a keyboard amp?

Should I bring it to my electronics guy and have him look over the driver and electronics?

Hammond m3 and key click