From hammond@theaudiodude.com Mon Apr 30 08:51:32 2007
Subject:Real organ, cloned Leslie?

Hi all...

First message to the group. I've been playing keys for a long time,
but never laid hands on a real Hammond until this week. My church
picked up an A-100 in excellent condition for a song at an estate
sale. No Leslie, though, just the built-in speakers.

Barring another estate sale find, we'll need to find some way to
emulate the sound of a Leslie. So, I've got questions. Does anybody
have any experience in rigging an A-100 or B-3 to work with a Leslie
emulator? How do I go about doing this? I doubt it's as simple as
soldering a 1/4" connector and resistor to the amplifier outputs (or
is it?)

And what would you recommend for a signal chain out of the Hammond?
Voce Spin II? Rotosound? Something else? Is simply emulating the
Leslie rotating effect enough, or do I need to also do some sort of
speaker modeling to get the gritty, "imperfect but beautiful" sound
of the Leslie speakers?

-JB