From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Apr 06 22:42:23 2006
Subject:Speakeasy mini leslie
As I said earlier this week, I thought the mini-leslie's horn was being outdone by the 12", and Steve Hayes said that was his fault for modding his amp to tame things down a bit. He sent me another amp to put in, and it was like night and day. I played it for a couple minutes to make sure everything was working correctly, then I packed it all up for practice.
First, even with the casters on, it fit in my Toyota Highlander standing up, no problem. I had half my back seat down and the other half up, and I was carrying my Xk3, my 4space rack with Speakeasy rack pre, my pedal board in its case, and the mini leslie with plenty of room to spare for another passenger in the back seat.
I set it up in our rehearsal space, and O...M....G!!!!! It was face rippin! NO problems hearing the chirp now. (Steve wasn't kidding.) We rehearse in our drummer's basement, and he has a 7 piece kit mic'd up and running through our PA, a pair of 2x15 + 2" horn boxes. And believe me, it was no problem being heard above him or the rest of the band; furthermore, we had no problems hearing the chirp, the motion of the upper horn at all.
All I can say is, I've owned every pretender to the leslie throne going, and none of them hold a candle to this! It's size is very misleading, it's a brutal beast! The Motion Sound Pro-145 was the most convenient of the "leslies" I owned, but this thing SPANKS it hard!!! This has a much smoother top end and midrange, but it has that grunt of a tube amp, the low growl, and that howling scream of a leslie that the Pro 145 never really had. It's got all the girth of my Bulldog leslie, and yet I can lift it myself into the back of my Toyota! It's KILLING!!!!!!! This thing is FEROCIOUS....or should I say FERO_SHUS!!!!!!
Aside from the balls and volume and tone, what really surprised me is that I didn't miss the lower rotor. With the extended range of the horn, you're still getting plenty of swirl, and yet that grunt of the leslie is providing some substantial girth in the mids and lows. And while I was really listening for spin inadequacies before the rest of the band showed up to play, I didn't find myself missing anything; and with the band playing, all I could is smile when they stared at that little box like "WTF?"
This thing is a MONSTER! Playing Wailers-style organ (81000000008, c1), or balls out 888888888888, this thing was sounding mean and sweet. 080000000 sounded very smooth; percussion was extra thunky; the only thing I found is that I wanted to dial the key click back just a hair on some songs. And the Electro sounded very very silky through this amp, and adding just a little overdrive to it brought a sly smile to my face.
As much as I love the sound of the leslie, I am finding myself more and more wanting to leave it at home (nothing like a job and sleep deprivation to seriously fatigue you). And while I tried to replace it with a Pro 145, I always kicked myself when I took the Pro-145 to a gig instead of the leslie. But that's not the case here; it's got all the killer tone of my Bulldog, but it's light and easy to move in comparison.
All I can say is STEVE, YOU HAVE MORE THAN OUTDONE YOURSELF! The mini-leslie (roadbox 3, mighty might, mouse that roared, tone tank, whatever you want to call it) is now an integral part of my rig.
UN-Fn-BELIEVABLE!!!!
T
tonysounds wrote:
I sometimes ran my 122 Bulldog leslie and a pair of 2101s simultaneously when I REALLY wanted to tear some heads off. It was pretty damn cool; of course, I used my Speakeasy preamp!
T
jpgxk3 wrote: Hello all:
Has anyone had the chance to try and run a Leslie 145/7 amp through a
Trek II UC1A pre-amp and a Leslie 2101 at the same time?? I run the
147 through it just fine all the time, but I was thinking about
hooking up the 2101 at the same time with an 11 pin cable for a little
more fun.
Thanks, Joey G.
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