From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Sun Jan 12 06:01:47 2003
Subject:Re: CX3...does it have it?/leslie fax

I agree with what you say totally. If you talk to any
Hammond tech, they'll tell you that the majority of
the sound comes out of the horn (the crossover point
dictates that more than 70% goes to the upper rotor).
But the bass frequencies that do go to the lower rotor
are quite important, and there is of it needs to be
treated correctly. There is no doubt that the lo-pro
redefines the 3t. Look at it this way: when you first
added a decent subwoofer to your home entertainment
system (if you added a good gone with a variable
crossover point) you'll notice that while indeed that
low end came up, when you got over the initial sub
motion, what really made your system sound good wasnt
what was rumbling underneath you, but the way the sub
actually shaped the mids and highs. Same with the
lo-pro and a real leslie.

tony

--- "rotosphere2001 "
wrote:
> I have found that in fact the bass plays a big part
> in the Leslie
> Sound. In a band context the sound that cuts through
> is indeed the
> treble where the bass is lost to a great degree by
> the other
> instruments, but in a close situation the bass makes
> a huge
> difference.
> I bought a Leslie with bass sim a while back, a
> Stereo 130, or
> similar number which had a 15" bass and treble (
> straight sound )
> horn and a rotating standard Leslie horn. This
> sounded great in a
> band situation with a 100 watts per stereo channel
> and where the bass
> part rotation was pretty much unheard, but was no
> fun at all in a
> small studio. It was the bass that was missing. In
> the end I
> separated the treble and bass, feeding the bass to a
> Rotosphere which
> improved matters some, but there was no comparision
> to my 145 cabinet
> even forgetting the tube element in the equation. (A
> 760 is a
> stonking Leslie cabinet with no tubes.)
> Long ago I had an X5 portable with a single speaker
> Leslie which
> sounded pretty good as it was a full range rotor.
> The bass does play
> a big part in the total. The Nord Electro scores
> high in it's
> complete capture of both the bass and treble
> elements of the Leslie
> sound.
> If there really was a limited bass element to the
> sound then the Pro3
> 3T would not really have much requirement for the
> addition of the Low
> Pro, as the Pro3( T ) has a decent bass sim as I
> understand. In a
> band situation the Pro3 will be fine but I suspect
> that in more
> intimate surroundings the Low Pro really comes into
> its own.
>
> Thomas.
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, ynottnaro
> wrote:
> > Actually, more than 70% of the sound is being
> pushed
> > out of the HORN of the leslie, not the low rotor.
>
> >
> > > Here's a big shortcoming of the 3T (sorry John!
> I
> > > love it, I do!):
> > > MOST of the Hammond's sound is getting pushed
> out
> > > the low end, which
> > > has that nice big resonanting space, which the
> sim
> > > on the 3T simply
> > > doesn't have.
> >
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