From tonysounds@yahoo.com Sat Aug 26 06:19:29 2006
Subject:Re: Leslie Simulator?? Which One???

Interesting points. But the overdrive was more useful on the G4 than the RT20. But I agree, each sim has its own strengths and weaknesses. As for parts, the G4 is obviously a Korg product, and as such, is built pretty well (although plastic housing compared to RT20's steel housing, most of its users *like mysef* never used it as a stomp box, but instead hooked a momentary switch to it so we could leave it on top of our boards). Parts will be around for a while.

The biggest difference, and why the G4 works better, is the RT20's very sensitive input...as you'll see from posts on this group and others, it's very easy to overload the front end. I still can't figure out how users used a Speakeasy pre in front of it.

T

jake92028 wrote:
--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Beach" wrote:
>
> The Rotomachine is garbage for organ players.... cheaply made,
noisy, the 122 and 145 modes are a great exaggeration of the real
thing. It's definitely designed with guitar players in mind.
Overloads easy too.
>
> Personally, I went with the Boss RT-20. I hear the Korg G-4 is
good too......never experienced it.

The Korg G4 has been one of only a few "gold standard" leslie
simulators, and it's more than 10 years old. Comparing it to the RT-
20: They have slightly different, but at least equal, simulation
quality, and I think the RT-20 is better in some respects, like
sounding almost as good in mono as in stereo, with an overall low
noise output. Both models have unuseable Overdrive controls, so that
equals out. Compared to the price for the Korg G4 which has been
sometimes up to $400-$500 in past years - and currently its
questionable used/good condition availability - like sometimes
waiting for weeks, months for one to show up on eBay = the practical
and at the same time best musical solution is to get the new top
gun, the Boss RT-20.

Boss has IMO taken this position versus any other product on the
market by applying the technology they learned with the VK77-VK8-
VR760 keyboards' rotary effects. With the new floor pedal unit
marketed inexpensively - probably less than half the price that
would normally be expected - and in mass quantities from a company
like (Roland)Boss, you can be sure there will be parts and service
available for at least a decade from now if you need them. With the
Korg G4, it's already well past that mark, though they were built
tough ..I wouldn't want to try to get one repaired.

Walter j




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