From goffmac747@aol.com Mon Jan 17 17:23:10 2011
Subject:Re: New Vent Footswitch


In a message dated 1/18/2011 8:05:41 AM, mate.stubb@gmail.com writes:

<< , but this does not reconstruct
the acoustic phenomenon of a real air spinner. >>

Dave,

Had a feeling I might've come off meandering and could've been lost in my
own thoughts. What got me interested in this thread was the stop "coast"
feature on the Vent that was an interesting touch as other sims don't have
that. My VK8M has a brake feature but not the coast. And having just recently
purchased another B3/122 asking that a stop position switch and relay be added
to the rig was met with, very few players ask for that feature, but yet the
Vent has it. I've always played with a stop switch and never met anyone
else who did in the years of lugging around a B.

I was intrigued by the comment that the Vent is of a mic'd leslie and/or a
recorded leslie. If it were of a mic'd leslie it would be a sample of one
but isn't it an effect of a leslie and what a leslie would do to a sound
source and not a real leslie recorded? Or a specific recording of one? The fact
that mic distances as with other sims are part of the tweaks may be a stab at
a mic'd leslie but is arbitrary as it would be stylized. Mic distances to
tweak a recorded leslie or mic distances to tweak a mic'd leslie? Am I making
sense? Isn't it basically a good rotary effect and not a mic'd leslie, but
presents itself to the user as a mic'd leslie for easier understanding?
There is a device out now that is an amp head that records other amps and then
emulates them, just to give you an idea of where technology is going.

Goff