Rotary Speaker Stomp-Box

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 30 Dec 2008 4:50 am

In the 70's, I had a "leslie" stomp-box. I cannot remember the name of it and wondered if anyone else had one. To the best of my memory it looked like a MXR Phase 90 but that was a long time ago.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 30 Dec 2008 5:31 am

Back in the "old days" I used a DOD 565 Chorus unit as a leslie simulator. It was terrible as a chorus unit with steel but great as a leslie simulator.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 30 Dec 2008 9:50 am

Roual my guess is a Uni-Vibe?Stu

Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 30 Dec 2008 10:10 am

I had an Electro Harmonix product but can't remember the name......

admin · Post by **b0b** » 30 Dec 2008 10:58 am

It was probably the Pro Junior.

These days I use an H&K Rotosphere. It really nails that Leslie sound - even the resonance of the cabinet. It works well in mono or stereo, and includes a 12AX7 preamp tube for the overdrive sound.

Buddy Elkin · Post by **Buddy Elkin** » 30 Dec 2008 3:29 pm

I have a Multivox Fullrotor that does a good job.
It is from the 80's

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 30 Dec 2008 7:33 pm

PEI Junior? JP

Post by **b0b** » 30 Dec 2008 9:58 pm

Jim Peters wrote:PEI Junior? JP

That's what I meant. I suffer from CRS sometimes.

Lynn Oliver · Post by **Lynn Oliver** » 31 Dec 2008 12:13 am

Anybody build one of these?

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 31 Dec 2008 4:56 am

Maxon sounds right. I do remember it was yellow but I cannot remember if it had more than one control. The drummer found it for me but neither of us remember what happened to it. I must have sold it when I got mad and quit in '79.

KENNY KRUPNICK · Post by **KENNY KRUPNICK** » 1 Jan 2009 12:52 pm

What's the one called that Line-6 makes?

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 1 Jan 2009 7:36 pm

Kenny, those are called Roto-Sound. I have one. Great sound, but a little noisy. Guitar center and Musicians Friend have them. They're not too pricey.

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 1 Jan 2009 7:55 pm

Here are some good sounding new ones:

http://line6.com/tonecore/rotomachine.html

http://www.roland.com/products/en/RT-20/index.html

http://www.dlseffects.com/roto_sim.php

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=151910

And this one is real good too if you can find one:

http://www.superpage.com/riffs/desc_korg.html

Brad

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 1 Jan 2009 8:37 pm

Roual,
that may have been the FL9 flanger?

BTW, has anyone tried running two phasors or a phasor and a chorus for a leslie effect? Maybe one at a fast rate and one at a slow rate?

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 1 Jan 2009 8:50 pm

I have a Korg G4 and a Dano "Corned Beef Hash" and the Dano is pretty noisy,I was wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of some of the noise?Stu

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 2 Jan 2009 1:12 pm

PEI Junior:

jp

Paul Haun · Post by **Paul Haun** » 11 Jan 2011 8:57 am

I know this has been a dead thread for a while, but wanted to revamp it...

Strymon is about to announce a new pedal, which we are all thinking is a leslie/rotary effect...it's called Lex...will have more details very soon, but knowing Strymon's reputation, this could be a great Leslie effect (if it truly turns out to be one)...

I got their El Capistan (tape echo) a few months ago and this is the best sounding tape echo except the old EP-3's of course...so, hoping to add a rotary to the Steel pedal board...

Anyone currently use one with PSG or have any audio clips?

Paul Haun · Post by **Paul Haun** » 11 Jan 2011 1:44 pm

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 11 Jan 2011 2:09 pm

These guys over at Strymon (previously called Damage Control) are some of the very brightest designers I know of. They're doing things with digital processing that is as impressive as anything anyone is doing out there. Strymon is also making two of the very best delay pedals available, and with an analog dry path. Great stuff, very smart, and cool people to deal with. I can only imagine that this Lex leslie simulator is gonna be as good as they get.

Brad

Paul Haun · Post by **Paul Haun** » 11 Jan 2011 5:09 pm

Brad Sarno wrote:These guys over at Strymon (previously called Damage Control) are some of the very brightest designers I know of. They're doing things with digital processing that is as impressive as anything anyone is doing out there. Strymon is also making two of the very best delay pedals available, and with an analog dry path. Great stuff, very smart, and cool people to deal with. I can only imagine that this Lex leslie simulator is gonna be as good as they get.

Brad

Brad, completely agree! When the El Cap was coming out, I was full of questions, as I was almost about the get an EP3....They were great answering, informing, and treating me like they knew me for years....And yes, bright they are!

I also agree about their delays being some of the best...the El Cap is hands down the best board/gig friendly tape echo sim...The Brig is a good delay, but always more of a tape echo guy...

BTW, I'd love to chat some regarding the Rev vs. SMS...

Ethan Shaw · Post by **Ethan Shaw** » 11 Jan 2011 6:05 pm

I found one of the old Maxon ones today. It was okay, but after trying a bunch of univibe/rotary speaker pedals, the Voodoo Lab Microvibe sounded the best to me. (a lot better than the way more expensive Fulltone, BTW.)

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