From bgvocals@yahoo.com Fri Feb 08 05:38:43 2008
Subject:RE: Leslie mic question

Theo,

Thanks for the descriptive reply! I have a few more
questions here, but you have some good stuff for me to
think about. Thanks.

> These days I always put a couple of SM57's (panned
> hard left and right)
> in an angle of 45 degrees, both pointing at the same
> corner of the
> leslie, fairly close to each other, where the
> louvres end.

So are you not micing the rear of the cabinet at all
where there is no panel and the horn would be exposed
directly to the mic? I see a lot of people micing the
rear, but are you saying to point the mic at the
louvres on the side or front? Got any pictures?

> Further, the mics being close to each other, you get
> a more realistic
> stereo image: each time the horn passes you hear it
> through the left
> speaker and almost immediately through the right
> speaker (instead of
> half a rotation later), so in the stereo image you
> hear it passing once
> per rotation.

That makes a lot of sense.

> I've tried other mics. Condensers don't work on a
> leslie, so stick with
> dynamic mics. 57's do fine and I find them to have
> better quality

So do you also mic the lower rotor with a dynamic mic,
or do you use something different, or no mic at all?
Most of our band's bass comes from the bass guitar
player, but I think the Leslie sound would be more
"complete" with the albeit small bass component of the
notes I play.

> I like close miking leslies, but that's "my sound".
> Great for getting
> that nice dirty horn distortion very audible (I'm
> playing rock and blues
> mostly).

I play contemporary Christian but we like to drive it
hard sometimes. :-0

> To keep this a little on-topic for this list: this
> micing approach also
> works with leslie sims where you can alter the angle
> of the virtual
> mics.
> It should also be doable on other
> clones that allow
> you to change these settings.

I am playing a CX-3 and am currently using the sim
into a mono PA system. But in a few weeks we will be
going to a stereo system and the sim may sound a lot
better than it does now. I think it is even harder to
get a good sim sound when you are forced to go mono.

Again thanks for the reply!

Keep the sound spinning,

Lou

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