Leslie 16
Last fall I picked up a leslie 16 in most excellent mechanical condition with the original 10 inch speaker. Had to build a wiring harness for the speaker signal and a footswitch for the speed control. Decided to use my old GFX1 as a preamp and a crown D60 bridged mono for an amp. What an awesome sound. Next was to take an old Boss stereo volume control pedal and rewire one side to work in reverse so it's now a panning pedal.
Feeding my guitar into both inputs, A output goes to my GNX 3000 and the B side goes to the GFX1. Now I can pan between the two setups.
While the 3k can get some good leslie sounds, there's still nothing like a real Leslie.
Feeding my guitar into both inputs, A output goes to my GNX 3000 and the B side goes to the GFX1. Now I can pan between the two setups.
While the 3k can get some good leslie sounds, there's still nothing like a real Leslie.
Comments
I agree..Nothing like a Leslie, but what a ball breaker carrying that thing to gigs...LOL..
the real
Mike B
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One of the things about them is most people set them up with the full grill
cloth pointed at them. This greatly reduces the amount of upper midrange
and high frequencies you hear. If you turn it so you are hearing the vents,
you'll hear alot more frequency range as that is where the mouth of the rotor actually exits the sound. Also these originally had a passive crossover network in the cabeling that almost no one has any more. This sent Low and hi frequencies to your regular amp setup and lower and upper midrange to the Leslie. But by using two setups you can electronically hi and low pass the leslie and dip the midrange from your normal rig and achieve pretty much the same results. Setting it in the middle of a stereo rig this way is a pretty amazing sound. Of course you get some mechanical noise, but everything has it's tradeoffs. I would of
course rather have a 147, but I wouldn't be able to get it in my house, let alone down the stairs to my basement. I'll have to see if I can lay it on it's back so the vents are horizontal instead of vertical like a 122 or 147.