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Post subject: Leslie effect pedal???
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:11 pm
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Looking for that rotary sound... without buying the leslie speaker...
Is there pedal that anyone has used that works?

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Kinda overkill, but the only one I have tried is in my Boss ME-20...

With my black hat, the rotary, and hitting those chords to Riviera Paradise, sometimes I think I hear SRV telling me to give it up... lol.


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I have the Boss RT-20 Rotary Sound Processor.
http://www.roland.com/products/en/rt-20/index.html has a few demo track using it

I looked as several rotary effects before buying this one.
The ones by Dunlop RotoVibe / UniVibe were not bad either.

And line6 Roto machine is relatively inexpensive but did not sound as nice as the Boss and Dunlop offerings.

Kind of wish Fender would re-issue their VibraTone rotating speaker enclosures :)
Hint-Hint :D

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The Rt-20 is the only one I can think of.

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Hughes & Kettner (sp) Tube Rotosphere


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Heres a review of the Boss RT-20
with some sound clips

http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=249

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The MXR M-134 Stereo Chorus does a pretty good leslie. Specially if you run the Stereo Channel by itslelf, Rate and Width between 3 and 6 and the Intensity High. It has a Bass filter, so you can effect the highs and leave the bass tones alone for Better Boogie.

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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:02 pm
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Thanks Everybody
Ill start looking these up this week end...

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Hey Bill, I'd be interested to know what you ended up with... keep us posted.


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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:04 am
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As with any pedal, amp, guitar, etc., this is subjective, but I have decided that the Boss RT20 Rotary ensemble is the way to go for a "Leslie" pedal

This is an excerpt from my Harmony Central review of the RT20;

I've been playing guitar for 19 years, and I've been looking for a good Leslie simulator for 17 of those years...I finally found one that satisfies what I want out of this effect.

I have tried and compared the H&K Rotosphere (too noisy, big, brittle, and expensive), the Line 6 MM4 (too digital and kind of expensive), the Danelectro Rocky Road (just...no), the Line 6 Stompbox (too brittle and noisy), the Jim Dunlop Rotovibe (just not "right", more like a Uni-vibe thank a Leslie), the Uni-vibe (like the Rotovibe, it's just not the same sound as a Leslie), the Peavey Delta Stomp (pretty close, but it just is slightly too vanilla and digital-sounding), the Rotary setting on my Line 6 POD (it was "ok", but too digital-sounding, especially for live applications) and the Electro-Harmonix Wiggler (too vanilla). The only things I've ever been satisfied with before the RT20 are a Fender Vibratone (a real Leslie-like device that costs and weighs too much), a Motion Sound unit (also a real Leslie-like device that costs and weighs too much) and a real Leslie (again, cost and weight).

The RT20 wins, hands down!

If it were stolen, I would hunt down the poor fool and make the rest of his very short life VERY miserable, and then gently put the RT20 back in my signal chain.

I like everything about the product (sound, price, and looks--that light show is awesome) except the poor-sounding built-in overdrive; but with my rig, that wasn't an issue.


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Post subject: Re: Leslie effect pedal???
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:42 am
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bill948 wrote:
Looking for that rotary sound... without buying the leslie speaker...
Is there pedal that anyone has used that works?


I've got the original Leslie on my Gulbranson Theater Organ... took five minutes to repair the rotary connection when I got the organ given to me for free... amazing instrument<g>

My Toneworks AX1000 and Princeton Chorus (stereo) do a pretty good job of emulating that sound...

The "U-Vibe" modulation setting is a rotary emulation... not my favorite effect, but certainly a good rotary model...

I take the "mono effects out" to the pedal where Toneworks takes over, locking out the built in effects (chorus, reverb), and breaks out the stereo channels to the "stereo effects in" where it feeds the dual power amps in the cabinet...

Stereo imaging is what makes the effect right...

It's a Good Thing!<VBG>

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For me it's the UniVibe. Not perfect but good enough.

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23 years ago i bought a 2nd hand vox chorus/tremelo pedal from the 70's. you could have chorus, trem or both. that didnt do a bad leslie impression. Whatever happenend to the 2nd hand effects market i used to find some real gems. Everything these days is so generic, is anyone venturing outside the norm anymore outside of Electro harmonix and danelectro. Even the boutique drives just seem like more of the same.

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nikininja wrote:
23 years ago i bought a 2nd hand vox chorus/tremelo pedal from the 70's. you could have chorus, trem or both. that didnt do a bad leslie impression. Whatever happenend to the 2nd hand effects market i used to find some real gems. Everything these days is so generic, is anyone venturing outside the norm anymore outside of Electro harmonix and danelectro. Even the boutique drives just seem like more of the same.


Go to Ebay, do a search under musical instruments for vintage effects or vintage (insert brand name here). There's some nice old MXR stuff.

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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:27 am
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i used a TRAYNOR ROTOMASTER for about 15 yrs. fantastic sound .it actually was a rotating horn.
unfortunately i loaned it to a friend one night, and it got dropped and was non repairable.
i tried about 15 pedals after that and the only one that came close was the MORLEY-rotosound pedal.their problem was they used oil as a sound delay, and (you guessed it)the oil would leak out.
i finally just gave up.

jimmy peters 8)


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