From tonysounds@yahoo.com Mon Feb 16 17:06:27 2004
Subject:Re: Speakeasy vs Hammond preamp
I wont speak for anyone else, but I will speak for myself. I love my Electro, but it has a really weak output. When I used my Voce V5 into my Classic Speakeasy and leslie, it grinded (sic!) harder than Tony Hawk (sorry...sk8er term). It sounded sweet,but when I pumped the gas, it barked. My Electro on the other hand did not. That prompted me to get a Howler. While that certainly did grind, it pushed a little too hard, and I was never really satisifed with what I was hearing...I wanted that sweet spot like on a real Hammond, where you're stepping on the pedal, but it's not all the way down, and its sounding big and full...but you step on that last little bit, and it starts to overdrive. I can't get MY Electro to do that. So I ordered the Barker. Now the Barker made MY Electro sound really good....but it was still missing that last little "push over the cliff." I ended up leaving the Barker/Classic mode on all the time, and I was really digging it. Ashby Solutions came up
with the Barker HG...a slightly modified Barker circuit, so I got one of those. That STILL did not do the trick. Stupid me, I should have just bought a little line mixer or preamp to goose my Speakeasy like others did.
Just last week I plugged my solid state Hammond chopper (already a plenty goosed signal) into the Speakeasy and man, THAT ORGAN CAME ALIVE! It's much smaller than my HammondStore chopper, which can't come to many shows (no room in the van with all the band's gear and the band). And now that I and the band have heard that, I have 4 volunteers eager to carry that 200+lb beast up flights of stairs. That organ made smooth transitions from Allman Bros tone to SPITTING FIRE. I nearly stained my jeans front and back after playing with that combination all nite. I just rebuilt my gig rack to incorporate my rack Speakeasy (glad it didnt sell actually!) I was so thrilled with it.
I have a little Behringer mixer at our rehearsal space, and I'll retrieve it tomorrow to plug between my Electro and Speakeasy. I fully expect that goosing the signal from the Electro THAT way will give the Speakeasy the juice its looking for to make the Electro sing. I'll post on that later in the week once I've played with it.
Honestly, my Vcombo sounded awesome through the Speakeasy/leslie combination and did everything I always wanted it to....the V5 had no problems either. The Electro's output is just very very weak...but with the right boost, I'm positive I'll get the results I expected. You can't go wrong with the Speakeasy, honestly.
T
I honestly believe that
funkyhammond wrote:
Hey gang,
I was hoping 'tonysounds' or someone else might be able to answer this
question for me. In a post to the NordElectro group, Tony said that he
finds the Electro, even running through a Speakeasy into a Leslie,
doesn't "grind" well and gives you more of a Greg Allman sound but
can't really achieve a good grind tone that you would hear, say, Jack
McDuff or Greg Rolie using. I'm assuming the same would go for any
clone running it's dry organ sound through a Speakeasy into a Leslie.
I've found that when I plug my Electro into my A-100's preamp going to
my Leslie, any tone, grind, etc. that I get out of my Hammond I can
get out of the Electro, so I'm a bit confused by Tony's post.
Are we really talking about a difference between the Speakeasy preamp
and the Hammond AO-28 preamp? I don't own a Speakeasy, but have been
thinking about purchasing one so that I can use my Electro with my
Leslie. But if I'm not going to be able to get the same kind of grit,
grind, bark, etc. that I get when running the Electro into my Hammond
preamp to the Leslie, then I'm going to have to rethink my options.
Has anyone here found the Speakeasy a bit lacking in reproducing
certain characteristics of the AO-28? Has anyone done actual A/B
comparisons running a dry clone into a AO-28 preamp then into a Leslie
versus using a Speakeasy into the same Leslie?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Yiorgos
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