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Best Leslie Simulator for harp
Best Leslie Simulator for harp
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30 posts
Oct 07, 2010
6:38 PM
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What Leslie simulators have you guys found work best for harp?
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boris_plotnikov
270 posts
Oct 07, 2010
10:00 PM
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I love electroharmonix smallstone phaser, but I didn't try bunch of others.
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hvyj
685 posts
Oct 07, 2010
11:30 PM
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Whichever one you use will not sound good UNLESS you adjust your technique when using it. The best harmonica friendly pedals are not just sound effects. They RESPOND to technique. So, you need to adjust your breath technique, mic handling technique, oral resonance chamber and sometimes embouchure to make them sound good as you play through them.
It's almost like playing a different instrument, so you also phrase differently to take full musical advantage of the electronic effect.
Last Edited by on Oct 07, 2010 11:34 PM
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toddlgreene
1876 posts
Oct 08, 2010
6:27 AM
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I have an old Dunlob RotoVibe, which can switch between tremelo and Leslie(deeper oscillations), and in the same chassis as a Crybaby. I like being able to vary the speed of the 'rotation' effect. This sounds great when playing octaves. Heed hvyj's advice, it is sound. If you've got money to spend on it, Hughes and Kettner makes the RotoSphere, which actually has a tube in it, and it sounds very realistic. Harper(Peter Harper) has used an actual Leslie cabinet in the studio, and it sounds fantastic, but that's a big peice of furniture to lug around, for sure.
If you work on your technique and learn your way around any of the available pedals and their settings, you can get decent results. Subtlety is key here.
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Todd L Greene, Co-Founder
Last Edited by on Oct 08, 2010 1:44 PM
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barbequebob
1319 posts
Oct 08, 2010
12:43 PM
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I know a player using a Rotovibe, which sounds cool, but his bandmates hate it when he uses it because for some reason, it seems to have a tendency to bleed into other people's amps.
Carey Bell, once he began touring with Steve Jacobs, after years of just playing straight thru the PA, finally began using an amp and he used a Cordovox Leslie setup, which I got to see when in 1994, I was on the road subbing for him with Louisiana Red for a few days.
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toddlgreene
1877 posts
Oct 08, 2010
2:00 PM
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That's a bizarre one, Bob-I've never experienced that, and don't understand how it could happen, unless a wireless mic trasmitter was in the chain, and somehow got picked up by another amp, in a similar fashion as truck driver's CB radios will sometimes do.
The only real downside of the Rotovibe is if you activate it while already playing-this involves stomping on the sweep to full-on position to click the swtch, which is located underneath the 'gas pedal', just like the Crybaby. That same motion controls the speed of the oscillation, so the effect comes on at an annoyingly fast speed(kinda sounds like some of the things I've heard from the POG, actually). The workaround is simply to stop playing before activating it.
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Todd L Greene, Co-Founder
Last Edited by on Oct 08, 2010 2:02 PM
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alleycatjoe
101 posts
Oct 09, 2010
2:59 AM
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there was one made by multivox in the sixties called a little david. it was mostly used by keyboard players. it looks like a miniature leslie cabinet.about a foot tall. if you ever see one grab it. available now are boss rt 20 its not bad. dan electro has a cheap one but its noisy.stay away from the hughes and kettner is expensive and sounds more like a skating rink organ no good. there were some small rotating speaker cabinets also available check out accordion-o-rama. sometimes they have stuff good for harp they probably have that cordovox amp. they used to carry alot of vintage amps i dont if they still do
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