From tymelys22@tadamson.greatxscape.net Wed Mar 21 13:08:12 2001
Subject:Ways to swing a cat.

I am posting this er..post to mention that there are many ways to
swing a cat, ways around a problem.
I recently purchased a Leslie 303, a small but powerful dual channel
Leslie. The bass rotor is a simulation but there is a real Horn,
Leslie's Pro3 but with built in dual power amps.
I was a first disappointed with the sound and this stemmed from the
simulated bass, which I believe is modelled off a rotosonic bass.
I have been using a Rotosphere and the rig is set up in a small
bedroom just used for my hobby.
Although the Leslie can go loud it also plays quietly and with only
the horn rotating does not make much mechanical noise, a boon in a
small room.
As I believed that it was the horn that made the m ain contribution
to the Leslie sound I was, as I said disappointed with the overall
sound which was not quite right.
I was feeding my keyboard sound to the straight channel and had this
thought, if I also fed the Rotosphere organ processed sound through
the straight channel turning down the treble rotor volume on the
Hughes and Kettner and also fed the organ sound into the rotary side
of the amp, turning down the bass this time I could get a very good
Rotosphere bass plus the real horn treble sounding together.This
works very well and I now have a great sound.
Unfortunately the slow/fast switch works in opposite polarities on
the H&K and the Leslie but I was able to re-wire a non-latching
footswitch so that it provides two switching outputs working in
opposite polarities and so both Leslie and H&K now switch from slow
to fast in sync.
The above might also work well with a Korg G4 or other simulator
which works well on bass but needs a treble horn to complete the
illusion.
Thomas.