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anybody got one of these? how do they take pedals?

wonderfully. there's what amounts to a guitar pickup on every key of a rhodes, probably why fender bought 'em.

cymbals eat guitars

Rhodes is the shit. Every Guitar stuff Sounds so Good with it. Rhodes with Fender Tube Spring reverb is to die for BTW.
If i would have some Space to Place it, i would have bought One already.
For the guys with no Space: my Buddy sampled the Old one we had at practice Space. I use These Samples quite a lot. If somebody Wanst them, shoot me a pm.

Owning an electric piano a la Rhodes or Wurly (or even a Pianet) is on my bucket list.
I'd imagine they'd be fantastic with pedals.

ooooh

do these wurlitzers have a different tone from the fender rhodes or are my ears just deceiving me

Yes, they play well. Mostly with something like a Roland RE-501.

Also Leslies. Yes plz.

And a real plate reverb. Like a 6' long sonovabitch, at least.

So...much...want...

Greenfuz wrote:ooooh

do these wurlitzers have a different tone from the fender rhodes or are my ears just deceiving me

Yeah different models have different tones depending on a lot of things, but mainly the sound source and how it's used. Like the Rhodes has basically tuning forks for each note that are struck with little hammers. Wurlitzers have struck strings or reeds depending on the model. The Pianet actually has sticky pads attached to each metal reed and when the key is press, the separation from the adhesive causes the notes to ring out. Cool shit.

I did a presentation in college on electric pianos

Wurlies are definitely different from Rhodes Piano's, completely different sound, I don't know how well they play with guitar pedals, a Rhodes is amazing with them.
Check this guy out, Patrick Muller (warning, major Jazz content), the sounds he gets out of the Rhodes (I think he also uses a Line 6 M9) are incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idGHj__u1c (especially check the solo from 4.10 on)

what about like a light distortion with a blend to give it it that old school recording feel

yeah I'm totally digging the wurlitzers a lot

are the tops of em really curved? I want to put an ashtray and a glass of whiskey on to for that authentic experience

early 70s Herbie Hancock is full of Rhodes with effects.

dubkitty wrote:early 70s Herbie Hancock is full of Rhodes with effects.

Yeah, I was gonna say, perhaps you missed when I posted these before:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcQBAwxQTg[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAA15ffaKg[/youtube]

electro-mechanical keyboards can be treated just like a guitar with a wider range. light distortion is awesome of course, especially when used with a tube amp. i have a few demos with wurlitzer and pedals.

smallsnd/bigsnd wrote:electro-mechanical keyboards can be treated just like a guitar with a wider range. light distortion is awesome of course, especially when used with a tube amp. i have a few demos with wurlitzer and pedals.

Yeah, I was going to point to some of your demos

dubkitty wrote:early 70s Herbie Hancock is full of Rhodes with effects.

Also Chick Corea in his Miles Davis Era. You can see him toying with pedals in the documentary "Miles Electric A Different Kind of Blue" and in the Isle of Wight concert.