From ken@kenhall.ca Thu Feb 11 04:51:32 2010
Subject:Re: Ventilator through Bose L1 speaker

I don't have a C1, C2 or E3, but I've had a Stage for several years. When
it's practical, I'll gig with my 147 - who wouldn't? But, I play lots of
festivals and multi-band shows where I need to get in quick, get set up
and provide a simple feed to the sound engineer, then vacate quickly after
our set. I have depended on the internal sim of the Stage in the past,
but I always feel hugely compromised playing organ through it. This is
where the Ventilator is brilliant for me. It lives in my gig bag, and I
can set up my rig and send either a mono or stereo feed to the FOH and the
sound is excellent. It also provides a nice back-up option if my 147 acts
up on the gig. Maybe the best $500 I've ever spent on gear.

Cheers, Ken

> "I've still not seen a side by side with a Vent, but I don't see
> how it can be worth spending the extra money on a unitasker"
>
> ---
>
> I've done this, both against the Nord C1 sim and real Leslie's
>
> Without going into big detail, here's what i was hearing:
>
> Nord Sim (with Speakeasy preamp) vs Vent (without preamp)
> The Vent is warmer, richer, growlier, less digital sounding and doesnt
> have any phase artifacts on chorale like the Nord sim does. The Speakeasy
> preamp is great at what it does, but it can't really re-shape the basic
> sound of the Nord Leslie Sim such that it realy competes with the vent.
> It's still a good sim though...
>
> Solid State Leslie vs Vent (vent is warmer sounding, and actually sounded
> better to me on stop and chorale than the real leslie, but the real Leslie
> sounds better on tremlo, at least when not overdriven, and the ramp
> up/down is more natural, as you'd expect)
>
> 145 Leslie vs Vent (tube leslie wins on all front's of course, but at low
> volume, the vent can still do the growly thing, where as the tube leslie
> needs to be cranked up high to make it sing, so for home/recording use,
> the vent is still a consideration for me over the real deal)
>
> UKDave
>