Has anybody here actually used a Fender Vibratone (or its siblings, the Leslie 16 and 18) in a live situation? How do you set it up, and how effective is it in creating that Leslie sound?
It seems that it was designed more to look like a guitar amp than to project rotating sound to an audience. No sound comes out the front, and the rotation is in a vertical plane to the sides.
I have some Leslie guts from an old organ for which I'm going to build a cabinet. The compact Vibratone-style cabinet certainly appears easier to manage, but it seems a more Leslie-like horizontal rotation would be more effective. The Leslie 825 was like this - a single foam rotor, spinning horizontally in the bottom of the cabinet. Sort of like a bass rotor by itself.
Anyway, what's been your experience? Do you use it alone, or along with your regular amp speakers? Do you mike it? How well does it do that Leslie thang?
For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, look here.
It seems that it was designed more to look like a guitar amp than to project rotating sound to an audience. No sound comes out the front, and the rotation is in a vertical plane to the sides.
I have some Leslie guts from an old organ for which I'm going to build a cabinet. The compact Vibratone-style cabinet certainly appears easier to manage, but it seems a more Leslie-like horizontal rotation would be more effective. The Leslie 825 was like this - a single foam rotor, spinning horizontally in the bottom of the cabinet. Sort of like a bass rotor by itself.
Anyway, what's been your experience? Do you use it alone, or along with your regular amp speakers? Do you mike it? How well does it do that Leslie thang?
For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, look here.
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