From tonysounds@yahoo.com Sat Mar 15 14:22:20 2008
Subject:Re: RT20: was Question on Korg Toneworks G4 Leslie simulator

THey were mimicking the UNIVIBE, popularized by Hendrix and Robin Trower (Bridge of Sighs), which of course was emulating a leslie. The pedal let you "dial in" the appropriate speed (GasPedal was the same thing). If you tap the left switch on the RT20, it does the ramp up and down the way it should.

T

Thomas Adamson wrote:
--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Beck" wrote:
>
> You're joking! Might as well just use a chorus pedal. Ramping IS
the secret
> of the Leslie sound! What WERE the designers thinking?
>
> Simon
>
> > You can use a separate footswitch but you lose the ramping, the
speeds
> > are straight on, fast or slow.

They were expecting I believe that the pedal would be used mainly by
guitarists and they designed the 1/4" socket to take a volume pedal
so that it would ramp the speed like the old 'Motion-Sound?' gas
pedal.

I think they were thinking alomg the lines of guitarists liking a
slow ramp speed.

It just happens that if you plug a regular footswitch in, it does
change speed, but it was never designed for this, and all that
happens is an instant change, fast or slow.
Thomas.



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