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Re: Please help me choose a Leslie...



Hello,

>"The pre-amp offers some interesting possibilities.
>If you increase for example the loudness of the pre-amp and decrease the
>loudness of the Leslie you get the same overall volume, but the actual
>sound changes. It becomes more like the typical 'tube overdrive' that is
>used very often in rock music and sometimes in jazz.
>The sounds gets more and more 'smokey' up to a real 'roaring' with the
>preamp at full load."
>
>(poor translation mine:-)
>
>Can anybody confirm this?

Yes, I can. I did the same thing with my A100/Leslie combination in order to get
this roaring, fat organ sound suitable for Hard Rock - it work's like hell.
Probably I'll beet every heavy metal guitarist ;-)

Lukas



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