From joostdenhertog@hetnet.nl Tue Jan 15 09:30:23 2008
Subject:Re: Leslies

Amen

hammond.b3@verizon.net schreef:
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> I've gone through the same thing everyone else has in searching for
> the real Leslie sound w/out using a Leslie.
> I've heard and played through just about every imaginable permutation
> of a Leslie. I even had the rare opportunity to hear Bill Champlin's
> Bill Beer rig in Tulsa MANY years ago. Loud as a mother but it lost
> something in the modification.
> I've come to the conclusion that size is relative to the amount of
> trouble one has to go through to get a Hammond console/Leslie sound.
> If you go small and light it takes several trip with cords, preamps,
> stands etc. to get in the hall. Or you can go with two pieces of gear
> which takes about 15 minutes total to load and hook up.
> I, too, like the ability to travel light as I'm not getting any
> stronger. BUT using clones and knock-off Leslies doesn't do it.
> Period. As I've said many times before, you'll get darn close and if
> you're happy with carting a pile of gear around then be happy.
> You can search for the Holy Grail of clones and high-powered
> Leslies/sims and so far I haven't heard it.
> Yes, I use a clone and a Leslie or a sim. No, it's not the same thing.
> I know what I'm getting when I do use clones. Close but no cigars.
> When Don Leslie designed his speaker cabinet all of us who heard it
> where blown away and no matter which Hammond you heard it through, a
> stock Leslie was the ace.
> When you start monkeying around with the original design it starts to
> lose it's luster. Bill Beer made a monstrously loud Leslie and
> although it was loud as hell it just didn't sound like the stock
> cabinet. It was as if the speakers were bypassing the horns and that's
> what you heard. More volume that spin.
> After hearing all of the amped-up mods done to Leslies, at the end of
> the day I always used a stock cabinet and miked the daylights out of
> it AND if needed used a floor monitor to amplify the sound.
> On occasion I use two Leslies. I've never been in a situation where my
> two stock Leslies couldn't cut it though just about anything.
> They're heavy but there is no substitution for the real thing.
> aurally, you simply can't get space and time out of a front-loaded
> speaker. It's just not possible given the physics of what a real
> Leslie does.
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