Pedals That Sound Like A Leslie Speaker?

[my bloody television]

I love big pedals

[modernage]

I'd just get the real deal!

Tell me one of these wouldn't look badass sitting next to your amp.

If you want a pedal you can check out the Blackout Effectors Whetstone. Not only is it capable of getting Leslie-ish tones, but it is the most flexible phaser known to man, and the #1 pedal on my GAS list at the moment.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkDtK7gGgI[/youtube]

You can thank me later.

[devnulljp]

Well if the humphing thing isn't an issue, scour craigslist for someone desperately trying to get rid of an old Lowrey organ. Go pick it up, keep the Leslie and chuck the rest of it in the dump. I've seen them for everything from free to a couple of hundred bucks, although the dealers are watching as well so move fast.

[Blurillaz]

If you want a pedal you can check out the Blackout Effectors Whetstone. Not only is it capable of getting Leslie-ish tones, but it is the most flexible phaser known to man,

Wrong, it is the third.
This is the second.






And the almighty #1

[MannequinRaces]

If you want a pedal you can check out the Blackout Effectors Whetstone. Not only is it capable of getting Leslie-ish tones, but it is the most flexible phaser known to man, and the #1 pedal on my GAS list at the moment.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkDtK7gGgI[/youtube]

Yah, I'm liking the sound of the Whetstone, a lot!

[devnulljp]

Isn't the whetstone a small stone with JC Maillet's mods?
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/pedalsSmallStone.html
http://moosapotamus.net/THINGS/frankenstone.htm

[MannequinRaces]

Isn't the whetstone a small stone with JC Maillet's mods?
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/pedalsSmallStone.html
http://moosapotamus.net/THINGS/frankenstone.htm

It's got a lot more knobs than a modded Small Stone!

[Nychthemeron]

If you want a pedal you can check out the Blackout Effectors Whetstone. Not only is it capable of getting Leslie-ish tones, but it is the most flexible phaser known to man,

Wrong, it is the third.
This is the second.






And the almighty #1

Too bad they don't make the doppelganger anymore.

Infinitiphase mk II!? I didn't even know they made a new one!

[devnulljp]

Isn't the whetstone a small stone with JC Maillet's mods?
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/pedalsSmallStone.html
http://moosapotamus.net/THINGS/frankenstone.htm

It's got a lot more knobs than a modded Small Stone!

You want switches? I got switches...



I vaguely remembered there being a prototype uber modded Small Stone up on the Blackout site, which was a rehoused SS, and I was halfway sure that's what he said the whetstone was going to be when he got around to building it. But I must have been thinking of this



I get scared away from pedals with too many knobs though..I know I'd spend all day tweaking like Gerry Garcia and never play anything

[oldangelmidnight]

The way I understand it, you can't emulate a rotating speaker with a pedal because the sound of the rotating speaker is dependent on the way it uses space. The sound actually comes from different locations and bounces off the walls in ways unique to the space it's located in. You can't replicate that with a pedal and a single speaker. All these pedals make cool, crazy sounds and the ones that work in stereo probably get closer if you have two amps, but it ain't a rotating sound.

That said, I've never actually heard a rotating speaker, so I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about.

[Nychthemeron]

I'm still wondering where RoboPimp is; he should've shown off his $25 homemade cheese-wheel leslie speaker by now.

[metalmariachi]

The way I understand it, you can't emulate a rotating speaker with a pedal because the sound of the rotating speaker is dependent on the way it uses space. The sound actually comes from different locations and bounces off the walls in ways unique to the space it's located in. You can't replicate that with a pedal and a single speaker. All these pedals make cool, crazy sounds and the ones that work in stereo probably get closer if you have two amps, but it ain't a rotating sound.

That said, I've never actually heard a rotating speaker, so I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about.

You are correct sir.
It is all about getting the Doppler effect by changing the direction the sound is being projected rather than distance.

The huge Leslie cabinets with their own amps spun a horn in one direction and a baffle under a 15 in the opposite direction. Only two speeds but they ramped up or down when you changed them.
The old Lowrey organs had a 6” speaker attached to an arm with a counter weight on the other end. The whole thing spun around. Awesome to watch if the back was taken off.

Oliver made the most practical as far as size, weight and not needing Rube Goldberg engineering for guitar use.

You probably have heard it, but just didn’t know. Listen to pretty much any recording with a Hammond B-3 and you’ll hear a Leslie
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[bigchiefbc]

The bass line in Led Zep's Heartbreaker is also through a Leslie.

[ech0es]

im kinda surprised by how much I actually like those Gig-FX pedals--never really looked at 'em before now. the pro-chop w/ midi sync is pretty damned interesting.

and yeah, you really can't do a real leslie in a pedal. but a good faux-rotary sweep can be done--my effectrode vibra-chorus does it wonderfully.

With a gig fx chopper and a stereo rig you have the same feeling than with a leslie cab (the sound goes from right to left)

[my bloody television]

yeah, I've actually gotten really convincing Leslie-like sounds by running my amps in stereo with a slow pan