Re: Leslie 740

[brian dodds <jyacc!aspen!bdodds@uunet.uu.net>]

On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Dallas Selman wrote:

> I find the sound pretty harsh and am wondering if I hooked a single channel
> tube amp
> up the the treble section of the Leslie only and left the solid state amp on
> the bass
> section  (below 800 hz or 150 hz?) how it would sound? does anybody have
> an opinon. I remember reading the odd posting about people using tube amps
> with Leslies but were they stereo amps or guitar amps? -Which is best?

it seems that every time i post something to the list, it's this:

i use a fender bassman 100, which is a two channel mono amp.. it uses 4
6l6's and it gives a nice, clean sound, and i can only turn it up to 2 in
my apt.. i use it with my leslie 120, which is bottom-rotor only, but it 
sounds killer.. i use a little pre-amp gain to distort the 12ax7's, but 
haven't actually tried to distort the woofer.. however, i can get it up 
as loud as i possibly can stand without any distortion at all, if i 
want.. of course, this is all opposite what you're looking for, but the 
highs come out very bright (i'm using a jbl 12") regardless.. for what i 
paid, i'm quite pleased.. 

                                bri..

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