From aevett1@yahoo.com Sun Apr 30 22:48:08 2006
Subject:Re: Speakeasy RoadBox III+

Well...After hearing Tony's RB lll this past Friday
night, with "Hello Dave" in Chicago, these additions
are simply going to take this piece beyond
hot...(Geez: Bruce is in on the deal, too; where IS
this thing going to end up ? Scary; real...
good...Scary. Guys: should I order USB on mine ? )

Ok...The RB lll is a monster, hands down. It's got
kicka** bottom end, it sounds full and smooth, it
screams, it 'chirps' ; heck, it'll probably do the
dishes, too...I can easily hear this box in my live
rig - would definitely liven things up in my
country/rock act (Shameless plug:
www.101ranchband.com...Very shameless plug:
www.myspace.com/allanof101ranchband...). I can already
hear my sound engineer groaning, as the band is mostly
'in ears'...But, our guitarist is still up there with
his Marshall....

And, what sound from such a relatively small cabinet.
Gotta hand it to you, Steve; you've got a winner,
here. And your input, Tony, has obviously been
invaluable...About 4 songs into "Hello Dave's" set, I
started doing the mental math on what I could get for
my modified Leslie 44W...

BTW: Any of you living within reasonable distance from
Tony's gigs should really check out the stuff he's
doing with "Hello Dave", etc... Lotta talent. lotta
fun...We had a great time hangin' and listening,
Friday night...

Allan

--- tonysounds wrote:

> As Steve's test pilot, one of the initial ideas I
> had proposed was a cavity in which to mount my
> Speakeasy preamp. Steve said 'no', for various
> reasons.
>
> But Steve did some brainstorming of his own and
> came up with a really great idea: he's going to make
> available his RoadBoxIII with a built in Shotglass
> preamp. One less thing to carry (pedal or rack
> pre), this set up will allow you to just run a 1/4"
> instrument cable from your clone right to the
> RoadBox (no leslie cables). You'll plug into the
> amp itself, and on the side will be a panel for the
> power cable, and footswitch (fast/slow/stop).
> Pretty cool!
>
> On further brainstorming, seeing as how he has now
> made his RoadBox III a variable-speed leslie (which
> is TOTALLY killer), I thought it would be cool if
> you could control it via midi. (Funny how we're
> chasing vintage tone and technology, but can't seem
> to leave the new millenium!) I'll be darned if
> within an hour, Steve called me to say it was a done
> deal.
>
> He and Bruce Wahler (guru of midi and all things
> music technology) have joined forces on a new
> version of the RoadBox III that is midi controlled.
> So I think you'll just plug in a midi cable and
> instrument cable, and then do all the speed
> switching via your keyboard, either through its mod
> wheel, a slider, a breath controller, or
> footswitch....or your D-beam controller!!!!
>
> Damn these guys rock!
> T
>
>
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