Do you give your Leslies "The Talk"?

[tpappano]

This 145 and 147 have been sitting next to each other for some weeks now. I get back from Kansas City and find they have delivered a baby! Seems perfectly healthy, too 8)

[Drawbar Dave]

This 145 and 147 have been sitting next to each other for some weeks now. I get back from Kansas City and find they have delivered a baby! Seems perfectly healthy, too 8)

Shame it wasn't twins :-)

[tpappano]

Twin 122s would be great but I guess a recessive gene popped up and this one may always be a 'runt'. Still cute, though 8)

[Sweet Pete]

It has it's fathers middle back panel!
Doesn't seem to have either parents eyes though!

[tpappano]

Surgery could be an option at some point 8)

[Drawbar Dave]

What a head transplant?!

[tpappano]

Ha, yes, the head is where the horns grow!

[Logan]

good looking kid! big birth weight though, i hope for their sake the 147 was the mother

[Sweet Pete]

Through genetics comes the miracle of Neo Ventilator.The Leslie clone is more popular these days than ever.
Nice as it is to open up the throttle on a few boxes at a gig or the warehouse,I have never had better sound at home to play.
Many of us that live in cities have smaller places,I'm fine with that,don't need a great big property to get gigs and live.Mowing the lawn or playing Keys?
It' a no brainer.
Brian Auger hasn't used a Leslie in over 50 years.

One leg of 'G' from this A102 preamp AO28 (1970 B3), to this Radial J48 DI totally unpadded! No caps or resistors,right into the mixer XLR! Input trim dialed totally off.
3/4 expression produces solid yellow LED's at +6db with another 6db to redline before you even hear drive.....backs off to clean as a whistle.
At the studio EQ is always cut only,basically this method sounds very much like the diode fuzz of aftermarket expensive cheek block style add ons!
Comparing the headphones to these 5" powered nearfields? This is basically what I want to hear at the recording studio and in concert.
Usually about a 60/40 dry/wet mix with some room 'verb and the Ventilator drive around 2 o'clock.Just enough 'dry' in the mix to leave on chorale without really needing stop.
Still puts C3 chorus right in face on stop and the stereo animation of 'resume' actually counts! Once the proper mix is set,no need for MEE switching whatsoever!
To my ears end results are what matters.
Back now to our regular hoarding,leave some TP for us poor old seniors please! "It's going away" my *ss!

[tpappano]

I got a Lester K for a deal that couldn't be refused, it works fair but I understand the vent is the benchmark. I have this hooked to the M3 'death machine' in my little office, going through the Crown CT400 and JBL 8330s. It sounds OK with the M3 'clean', but go distorted the dsp math in the Lester K falls apart and just makes a mess 8)

[tpappano]

Oops, someone woke the baby! This thing sounds surprisingly good, much better than I expected 8)

[KC9UDX]

Well if you ever need to put one up for adoption...

[Sweet Pete]

The black market for Leslie parts is insidious....complete babies you save,not part out!
Still feel the shame of this incorrect middle back panel.....stolen from a 120.

[Sweet Pete]

I miss the full range blowin apart sound,and everytime I hear Goldy on BTBW I still crank it! Miss talkin to Goldy Too!
He gets to American Recorders thinking he's using the B3,which Jim Greenspoon has in 'A' with 3Dog,and ends up using
the Lowery spinet just thrown off the loading dock.....into his blown V21less 145.Bypass the x-over and record.
Sometimes adversity actually produces something classic,and Goldy certainly did just that!

[tpappano]

BTBW certainly a great song. I've always been moved by ‘Monster', a song that has been “timely” no matter the year 8)

[Drawbar Dave]

Was it ever documented which Lowrey spinet was used? Have searched the web several times.

[Sweet Pete]

Couldn't tell you what spinet it was.What I do know is upper manuals on Lowery have no 5 1/3 stop/drawbar.
Lower manual has a coupler on consoles though....so Goldy most likely used mostly the lower manual on that one.
Go ahead and try your Hammonds people,sans 5 1/3? Hear that?

The Lester K is a good tremelo,ramp times are weird.Chorale sounds more like chorus,which is fine in an ensemble context.
Sounds fine 'in the mix' just bring expression out front carefully! Yeah,Monster is another memorable moment from the halcyon organ rock days!
Goldy ended up playin' Green Eyed Lady with Sugarloaf drummer in tribute bands....that's him on Steve Marriot Humble Pie "Need No Doctor".....
and like many,gone too soon!

[KC9UDX]

What I do know is upper manuals on Lowery have no 5 1/3 stop/drawbar.

I think you have that backward.

[Sweet Pete]

Thanks for clarification! Had it backwards.I do remember it was 'one' of them! Chest Fever is also a Lowery and 145.Those trombone-ish glides
are signature for Lowery! Great reed stops too!

[KC9UDX]

No problem. Happy to have to get a good picture :). I'm looking forward to a major repair soon. If this covid scare comes to fruition I'll get time to do it.

Aside from not having enough keys, this is what bugs me about this organ, which I guess is normal for spinets: I wish the lower manual stops were better, in fact almost wish they were swapped.

[kziss]

I hear Goldy on BTBW I still crank it! Miss talkin to Goldy Too!
He gets to American Recorders thinking he's using the B3,which Jim Greenspoon has in 'A' with 3Dog,and ends up using
the Lowery spinet just thrown off the loading dock.....into his blown V21less 145.Bypass the x-over and record.

Was it ever documented which Lowrey spinet was used? Have searched the web several times.

Although Goldy McJohn used a Lowrey organ on "Born to be wild" and on "Sookie Sookie", you can easily mimic that sound on a Hammond organ with the 16 ft and the 4 ft drawbars pulled out (800800000 setting), and with some dirty overdrive, and of course also by disconnecting the treble horn driver and then sending the full range signal into the Leslie bass rotor.

[Sweet Pete]

He used C1 a lot and disconnected lower chorale to get his signature ramp downs.Liked 'medium speed' obtained by riding the switch!
Auction brought about 2K for the A100/147 John Mayall gave him.We would swap Otis Spann inspired trills for laughs!He was a great guy!

[NittyRanks]

My Leslies are out in the garage looking at the wall and thinking of what they did. Leslie discipline is hard.

[tpappano]

"Tough Love" can be hard, but a sometimes a parent has to do what must be done 8)