Leslie Cabinet

[jrittvo]

I just bought a partial Leslie assembly off eBay - 2-speed motor, drum assembly, and a 10" speaker - all mounted up and ready to go into a cabinet. I plan on building a cabinet around it.

When folks use a Leslie with a guitar, is it the only speaker, or do they generally use it together with another cabinet at the same time? I guess I'm really asking if it would make sense for me to also put a stationary speaker in the same cabinet with the rotating module, maybe with the fixed speaker firing towards the rear?

Thanks for any advice.

[overtone]

I sometimes used a Solton "twin jet" which is parked up in the roof now and I used it with other cabs / bi-amping to add a little weirdness.
If I recall correctly, it has s a fixed 15" in the bottom of the cab with two rotators above going in different directions.
One is the typical Leslie rotator and the upper one is a spinning double horn that looks like a radar.
The radar rotator is actually in an extra cab and I have never thought about trying pure rotation.
I suspect that would give me or the dog a seizure.
Good luck, tony

[ampmike]

Yea I played one about a month ago and you might need another cab for just the 10" speaker,You will love the sound that thing makes,nothing like it!!Good Luck,Mikey

[vibratoking]

I don't think there is a definitive answer to your question. Some designs use a single speaker with a rotating system in front of it. Others use a crossover and have separate rotators on the highs and lows. Still others use a crossover with no rotator for the lows and one for the highs. Some feel that there is no need to rotate the lows because the human ear is not very sensitive to doppler shift in the low frequencies.

The reality is there isn't one right way. It depends on what you like.

[C Moore]

You need to think of the Leslie as a stomp-box and not a speaker.
It is for effect only. There is not much "projection" from a Leslie. They benefit, hugely, from being mic'd. That is another art in itself....learning to mic a Leslie.
You will definitely be needing a "regular" speaker cab.
Best

[LeeMo]

Check out the pdf manual on page 5. "use with a stationary speaker. "

http://motion-sound.com/product?name=srv-212

LeeMo

[jrittvo]

Thanks for all the great info everyone! Seems like it wants to be in its own cabinet, without an added stationary speaker in the same cabinet, so I have the most flexibility in the end.

[G. Hoffman]

When I made mine, I a switch box so I can use it both ways, as they both have advantages. My advice would be to experiment and see how you like to use it.

Here is the switch, though it is pretty simple. It needs a couple of high power relays. (I use THIS for my 18 Watt amp.)

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And just because I enjoy it so much, the cabinet I built around my Leslie.

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Gabriel

[jrittvo]

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing the schematic. Your switch will be the first thing I try to build from scratch. No hight voltage caps or lead dress to worry about . . . and even I can understand what is happening in the circuits. Just my speed. I like the look of your cabinet too. Some good inspiration there as well. Thank you again!

[G. Hoffman]

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing the schematic. Your switch will be the first thing I try to build from scratch. No hight voltage caps or lead dress to worry about . . . and even I can understand what is happening in the circuits. Just my speed. I like the look of your cabinet too. Some good inspiration there as well. Thank you again!

Your welcome. The two FETs are, I believe, BS170s (I haven't had to look in the box since I built it, and who can remember such things - but those are the FETs I have a lot of, so I use a lot of them.


Gabriel

[Super_Reverb]

When folks use a Leslie with a guitar, is it the only speaker, or do they generally use it together with another cabinet at the same time?
Thanks for any advice.

Agree with hired hand's comment about Leslie being an effect rather than your main cabinet. Frampton carried a leslie on tour: the as I understand, they miked it, in essentially a sealed box and then mixed it with dry guitar signal.

Rotating speakers with overdrive can give you a wicked, powerful crunch tone (when you aren't using it with the B3 8^)

cheers,

rob