From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Tue Apr 01 04:41:16 2003
Subject:Re: leslie project/in ears

Hmmm....

The thing with hotrodded leslies is they tend not to
sound like real leslies....at least, not with the
qualities I look for in the sound of an old tube
leslie. I'm actually going to stick with stock leslie
parts...however, I just might investigate that super
driver you're talking about. It would be nice to take
full advantage of the 40w amp. But how much does that
driver color the sound???

T
--- bkuris wrote:
> > my plan is to build a half leslie....a maxi Pro3t
> if
> > you will.
> >
>
> That was the design goal for my SKB 6-space leslie
> and can offer the
> following advice:
>
> 2 loud phenolic drivers are the 8 ohm Selenium D250
> (~$30 from parts
> express) and Ruby 12ohm driver replacement (I have
> it installed in my
> 145 but you need to change the x-over values for
> 12ohms or sounds
> horrible). The D250 w/SPL of 108dB and >100W power
> handling is a
> beast! I really like the sound of the D250 w/a
> simple 1st order x-
> over set at 730hz (series 27uF cap). The driver
> is rated down to
> 500hz but I wanted to be conservative. You could
> use a stock leslie
> amp and drive 2 of them to really go deaf! I'm not
> sure if it is
> safe to run an 8ohm load on a leslie amp-- I know
> its not a good
> thing, but someone on this list must have some
> actual data and
> experience.
>
> I'm not looking for volume w/my rig, so the rest is
> up to you... I'm
> waiting for my 16ohm MASS to arrive to determine if
> I can use a stock
> leslie amp for my SKB leslie (w/bass running into my
> 100W tube head
> and no worriesa about the 8ohm driver). The
> alternative will be a 1U
> poweramp and rack EQ or 2space FET guitar/basshead
> (there are 2
> spaces left in SKB rack under the dual motor stack
> which is hung from
> a shelf as in a conventional leslie).
>

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