From groovecake@yahoo.com Mon May 24 07:06:28 2004
Subject:Ramblings about leslie sims - mono vs. stereo

Josiah wrote:

<< Also, the folks you mentioned probably did their
bass direct to the mixing board. You can rig up a line
out for a B3.

I know that Joey and Tony do this and they also use
a compressor on the bass to even out the Expression
pedal.>>

Yeah, but it would be wrong to say they "always" do
that. I would venture to guess that often times they
just mic the cabinet.

Here's my guess (and some of you audiophile types can
correct me if I am wrong): I would guess that you hear
a more even bass on recordings because the mic on the
lower rotor catches the bass frequency in the whole
area, not just what is blasted at the mic.

Ya know...kind of like how a sub can cover the whole
room where as the high end is more directly aimed...if
that makes sense.

Perhaps leslie sims don't totally duplicate how the
frequencies are picked up.

Which brings up another thing I have been thinking
about: mono vs. stereo. I have started to think that
running a leslie sim stereo isn't the way to go. Why?
Let me see if I can make any sense of this.

Convential wisdom says to run a leslie simulation in
stereo to better dupicate how the sound gets thrown
around the room. But that's not really what ends up
happening. The sound from a leslie reflects all over
everywhere from a central location. When I gig with my
leslie, the sound mostly comes from that central
point...NOT equally from both sides (or into both
ears). In other words, unless you are gigging with two
leslies (I'm looking at you Tony!) that are set up on
the left and right of you, you never get a "stereo"
leslie sound.

I really realized this the first week I had the XK-3.
I had it hooked up into my stereo. I tweaked and
tweaked and tweaked but just couldn't get it to sound
the way I liked it or was used to hearing my B-3 - the
key click was my biggest problem - it was just so damn
pronounced. Then it occured to me to just run from one
speaker from the mono out. All of a sudden...BANG!
That was it. The keyclick was right and everything.
The bass lines sounded tighter when the leslie was
spinning. This was because the bass line wasn't being
tossed from speaker to speaker...which is unrealistic.

Does any of this make sense?



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