How Do You Get This Sound Effect?

Tom Olson · From: Spokane, WA

What is the effect called, and/or how do you achieve it -- the one I'm talking about makes an electric guitar sound a bit like an organ, but you can still definitely tell it's an electric guitar.

The two songs I can think of right off that exemplify this effect are the guitar solo in "Badge" by Cream and the lead guitar in Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy."

Thanks

Steve Hinson · From: Hendersonville Tn USA

It's a Leslie organ speaker cabinet.

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Tom Olson · From: Spokane, WA

Steve, thanks. That's what I suspected, but I wasn't sure. I'm assuming that there are some FX devices that have a Leslie speaker cabinet setting on them?

Greg Cutshaw · From: Corry, PA, USA

Tom,

Click here to hear some samples of the Line 6 Roto-Machine. It does a decent imitation. I haven't experimented with all the settings yet but I found that the suggested settings in the manual are not the best. I still have this unit and I'm pretty happy with it.

Greg

Dean Parks · From: Sherman Oaks, California, USA

Cool, Greg-

You've got the reverb ahead of the rotary, so that the rotary afffects reverb also, correct? If so, are you doing it in stereo?

-dean-

Tom Olson · From: Spokane, WA

Greg - Thanks, I appreciate the info.

Charles Dempsey · From: Shongaloo, LA

Our other guitarist has a Line 6 Roto Machine. It works off the power supply on my Boss pedal board, the sound is pretty good, and it's a whole lot easier to wag around than a real Leslie :^).

Charlie

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

You can get a very good organ sound from most flangers. I use a Boss flanger and have used a DOD for the same thing. JH in Va.

Jim Sliff · From: Lawndale California, USA

As Jerry says, a flanger is the eeasiest way to get something sort of similar.

The Leslie 16 or Fender Vibratone (identical except for the nameplate)are the units made for guitar amps - they send the highs/lows to the guitar amp speakers and the mids to a 10" speaker in the Leslie cabinet, which has a rotating foam baffle; it throws the sound out to the sides with a doppler effect, so the pitch rises and falls. Speed is slow/fast with a simple switch, and "playing" the "ramping" (speed change) effect of the unit is an art in itself.

The discontinued Arion SCH-1 (NOT the SCZ-1) chorus is considered to be among the best emulators as well - Bob Bradshaw used to put them in all his high-grade rack effects rigs.

The H&K Rotosphere is very good; The old Maestro P-1A Phase Shifter (big floor unit with colored switches for speed) sounds fairly decent and is one of the first to offer the "ramping" effect;the Danelectro Rocky Road is absolutely horrible.

IMO the best of all emulators is the discontinued Korg G-4. They are hard to find and expensive, but if you want that sound and don't want to drag around a Leslie it's the best ever - has speaker/horn adjustmenst, boost (like the organ model amplifiers), micing emulation...all sorts of options, and of course does the "ramping" effect.
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Al Marcus · From: Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)

Hi Tom, I have a PE JR that I bought new in 1972, and it works fine, sounds good on the organ sounds and good for rock too. It has two speeds and the low speed is like a flanger sound, I use that for songs like "MY illusive Dreams" but good for a lot of different thinngs. It is just a small box 5X6. It has a push button on and off switch and a push button fast and slow. I put in on the floor next to my volume pedal. I have never any trouble with it, but don't play out hardly ever any more so thinking of selling it. They are not available on the market anymore and that is too bad...happy New Year...al:)

Colby Tipton · From: Crosby, Texas, USA

I think Greg has some good examples. The only thing I would do is to not do any odvious string pulls while using it. Chords or pasing chords would sound very good on this little stomp box. Greg, what does it sound like on a good long run of single notes?

Colby

Larry Beck · From: Pierre, SD

http://www.motion-sound.com/electric_guitar.htm
I had one but sold it. Great sound but one more thing to carry.

Michael Johnstone · From: Sylmar,Ca. USA

I used to see Danny Gatton sound just like a great B-3 player comping jazz changes and all he did was dial in a muted tone on his Tele and use the vibrato on his Fender Twin on a fairly high speed and medium depth. The rest was just the way he played and his voicings.

Gabriel Stutz · From: Chicago, USA

Strangely enough, I was just trying to get a B3 like sound out of my steel last night. I have a boss me-50, but you could do this with most any effects unit. I just put on the rotary speaker effect - nice and slow, a little bit of overdrive, and a bit of hall reverb. It actually sounds pretty good.

Gabriel

Jerry H. Moore · From: Newnan, GA, USA

I heard once that the phase shifter was originally built to sound like a Leslie. It's a beautiful effect that I think only the Leslie can produce. Just my $.02. Danelectro makes a cheap stomp box that's not bad.

John Rickard · From: Phoenix (It's A Dry Heave) AZ

I use a Rotosphere. It is probably the best sounding thing next to a real Leslie.

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

John,
That's the unit I use also. I have a 2 button remote that I position next to my left foot so it's real handy to kick in and out.

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