From c_schonberger@yahoo.com Fri Apr 04 11:31:44 2014
Subject:Re: shameless self promotion (re-post) and some on-topic stuff

Joe,
 
I use a constantly serviced 1982 Elkatone rotary speaker cabinet (got it used for 150 Euros = less than 200 bucks, but it shows its age and use, sometimes the treble horns and even the bass rotor stall at slow speed - resulting in a "dead" sound" instead of providing that sweet chorale: needs servicing), which sounds very close to a Leslie 122, the design is almost 100% identical, except that instead of louvers the sound goes through grilles (you can't take away the back panels because it's one huge panel with all cable connections) and the treble horn has no deflectors. The bass rotor seems to be made of a hard kind of styrofoam which is fine for the frequencies it has to handle.
The Elkatone has standard jack inputs (hi and lo), so there's no hassle. Just a mono cable from the organ/cone into the NeoVent (guitar mode/no speaker/cabinbet sim - smal black switch in) A headphone "stereo" jack adaptor (= turns a mini jack into a a standard sized jack) inserted into the "remote control" (this makes both virtual rotors stop) then I go from the left/mono output into the Elka rotary speaker. The sound is just killer and dead-on the kinf of overdrive we Hammond buffs are looking for. Crank it all up and there you have Jon Lord, a little less and there's Greg Rolie/Santana, turn it to 12 o' clock and you have a great overdrive gluing the sound together with that powerful, sweet creamyness. No crackle, no rasp -  just pure awesome classic Hammond.
I know I sound as if I'm seeling something. I'm not :-) Just happy that I finally found the sound I have been after for so long. It sits way better in a complex mix also, because the combination of the Vent overdrive and mic'd physical rotary speaker produce the exact correct harmonics which shine and shimmer through any mix. No sim (without a real rotary speaker) does that (and I tried many!).
 
If you use a "real" Leslie, I guess you need to find the correct adaptors from mono jack out to the ?-pin connector or heat up your soldering iron and ask someone who knows:-)
 
A big thank you to the great members of this group who gave me the idea to just insert a stereo Jack headphone adaptor into the Vent remote control to make the virtual rotors stop. It sounds awesome (trust me - I will post links with soundbytes ASAP).
 
Christian
 

On 4/4/2014 8:54 AM, jpgxk3@yahoo.com wrote:

 
>Christian, nice work with the project. Would you be a little more specific about your use of the Vent? I understand using it before the Leslie for its o/d function, but how are you connecting the 1/4" output of the Vent into your Leslie amp? Does your Leslie have 1/4" inputs, or do you plug the output of the Vent into a Trek uc1a pre-amp pedal, or a Leslie pre-amp pedal??? Thanks for you time.
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