From formercakid@yahoo.com Mon Nov 17 08:33:03 2003
Subject:Re: Leslie Simulators (Lexicon Vortex)

Thx...never saw your reviews before, will check them
out. I use 2 amps because I need volume and power to
compete with 2 guitarists. This allows me to do
something you can't do with a Leslie, increase or
decrease the volume of either the lows or highs.
--- Thomas Adamson
wrote:
> Hi,
> For what it's worth, I did a couple of reviews on my
> findings from
> using Dynacord's DLS and CLS series Leslie
> simulators which you can
> find on this list's founder member's web-site (
> www.
> ashbysolutions.com)where I specifically mentioned
> the importance of a
> clean crossover
>
> "Following on from the CLS range -- which started
> with the CLS22 that
> did not have the switch for effect on/off, but which
> in other
> respects was the same as the 222 -- Dynacord changed
> tack, discarding
> analogue for digital with the advent of the DLS223.
> This was replaced
> with the similar DLS300, which is reviewed here. The
> DLS223/300 was
> also much admired, but fell down slightly in that it
> was less able to
> produce a clean divide between upper horn sound and
> lower rotor
> sound, which is a feature that really needs to be
> captured to
> emulate, convincingly, the classic Leslie sound. The
> crossover at
> 800hz should route frquencies below that figure
> entirely to the bass
> speaker and the frequencies above 800hz should be
> handled by the
> upper horn speaker alone." from
> www.ashbysolutions.com reviews
> Dynacord CLS/DLS
>
> I don't think that it particularly needs two
> separate amps to
> convince; just a damn good cross-over. The horn and
> compression
> driver on the Leslie though do impart a tonal flavor
> to the sound
> which it's difficult to emulate convincingly.
> The Rotosphere, not disimilar to the Dynacord CLS
> apart from its
> tube, also has a decent crossover at 800hz. Both
> these units are
> analogue. The DLS was digital and when first
> produced as the 223 did
> not have enough lines available in software to
> adequately define the
> crossover. This was to some extent improved upon
> with the 300 which
> gave up some parameter adjustments in order to
> provide better
> separation as I understand.
>
> My current favorite simulator is the in-built sim on
> the Electro,
> which has upped the reality stakes along with Korg's
> CX/BX series and
> also the software from Emagic on its EVB3 and Native
> Instrument's B-4.
> All the above can be handled by one stereo amp to
> provide excellent
> simulation, with good separation of bass and treble,
> which as you
> posted is a necessity in a convincing simulator.
>
> Regards, Thomas.
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "formercakid"
>
> wrote:
> > I thought I would mention some food for thought
> and pose a question
> > regarding Leslie Simulators whether they are
> outboard or inboard.
> One
> > of the major aspects of a Leslie is its ability to
> separate the
> lows
> > from the highs. The horn produces the high
> frequency and the low
> 15"
> > speaker produces the low frequency. This is what
> makes the Leslie
> > sound so unique and truly hard to replicate with a
> simulator and
> only
> > one amp. Although there are Leslie simulators out
> there that have a
> > balance control, correct me if I am wrong, none of
> them have
> separate
> > outputs for the frequencies. So you can't send the
> highs to one amp
> > and the lows to another. I attempt to do this in
> my rig useing a
> > Peavey 115S base amp and a discontinued long out
> of production
> Peavey
> > HP210 powered speaker. The Peavey 115S has the
> biamp feature to
> send
> > the lows to the preampin internal 15" speaker and
> the highs to the
> > separate HP210 (2 10" speakers). I use a
> Rotosphere for the Leslie
> > sim. But then again the Rotosphere does not have a
> low and high
> > outputs. In all of the reviews that I have read
> about Leslie
> > simulators the reviewers have failed to mention
> the importance of
> the
> > frequency split in evaluating the units. I
> discovered that there is
> > one device out there that does have this and that
> is the Lexicon
> > Vortex. I have never owned one but would be
> curious if anyone out
> > there has experimented with one.
>

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree