dawman wrote:What a cool mod site.
But I had a 122 and it didn't sound like the 147 which was Tubes and SpringVerb, it had a nice sound but that Highway Star B3 tone came from the 147.
The 122 had more of a Boston Mosfed thing, but I'd settle for either of them.
Are you sure Jon Lord played stock Leslies at that time ?
Even in the very old vids I see Leslies and Marshall cabs (w/ a Mid/HF horn) in his backline.
He probably mixed Leslie and direct Hammond into Marshall stuff and there was the Maestro ringmodulator too.
He also used modded Leslies very early,- original tweeters replaced by JBLs and the 15" Jensen woofers replaced by Gauss as also the low wattage original Leslie tube amps were replaced too by whatever power amps.
B.t.w.,- the Dynacord DLS223 and 300 (mine is a software/hardware to DLS300 upgraded DLS223) mimiks characteristics of Leslie 122, 147 (and the CLS222).
It has 3 preset memories for these which can be edited and overwritten by the user and the "room" parameter is nothing else than mimiking the volume of the cabinet and reflections.
There´s a lot of BS written in the web about the "Leslie Clones" and the DLS300 alone sounds definitely better than the "double Leslie" in my Kurzweil PC361 which also eats up all the FX ressources of the PC3 engine.
Now we could nitpick about NEO Ventilator,- but I think, in a live scenario it doesn´t matter and the Vent isn´t rackmount as also you cannot control and edit it over MIDI when mounted on a shelf in a rack.
dawman wrote:
I'd love to save 1500 USD but if the Leslie 12 gets that tone I crave, they'll get my cash.
Yep, if it´s great, it is and than it´s worth the cash.
In think it´s not much smaller and much more lightweight than a Leslie 145, isn´t it ?
In fact,- that might hold me back, just because of my f***in´ hip joint and back issues.
In the past I didn´t care on cash and bulkyness,- all was well payed and there were my roadies, but it´s over since many years now.
Today, schlepping gear from 1 room to the other only in my house is a pain already.
dawman wrote:
I'd love to hear some of your b2003 Tube stuff sometime, you definately are from the same era I was as we are happy about so much progress in Keys and PCs, but actually KNOW what things sounded like from certain eras as we own, or owned much of it.
Cheers
Well, you will sooner or later.
I had a lot of other tasks to manage the last year and up to now,- not all is finished or over.
But since yesterday,- my DAW is up and running again after replacement of 3 drives and swapping all the content from old drives over to the new ones.
But, I organized (the larger) drives different now and not all apps find the content,- so I have to rescan w/ Kontakt and others.
I also had to update tons of plugins and applications incl. all the re-authorisations and re-activations of commercial software just only because the hardware code of my machine changed for several times during that work.
Really cumbersome stuff,- but SCOPE 5.1 and XITE-1 run well again.
Unfortunately, I lost a lot of projects when harddrives crashed and I only had backups of the SCOPE projects but not these from Reaper, Reason and Studio One which were definitely gone.
Mid next week I´ll back at that point I was in april last year ...
But then, I´ll buy Modular IV upgrade and if I can get it,- this little MIG LRC board for the Dynacord DLS.
If I get it and it´s build in,- I´ll do a recording.
What works very well w/ the Dynacord DLS is, when you stop the Leslie,- the rotors stop in stereo image center position always which was not the case w/ the CLS222 and resulted in too much random coloration of the sound you never had w/ a real Leslie.
In fact I always liked the sound of Leslie w/ rotors stopped, just like a tube driven speaker cab,- then occasionally go directly to fast rotation and stop again.
We´ll see ...
Bud