Saturday 19 June 2010

The Guitar wasn't it. I went a bit buying nuts on the 'nets

On eBay and Kijiji, with used music stuff:
Two of these on eBay for the price of one.
And one of these (a lower end 70s Leslie rotating speaker cabinet, but a 70s LESLIE rotating speaker cabinet nonetheless) for $100.  Now I can mess around with electronic stuff, making it work for guitar and voice instead of just organ.  I basically just does this (spins a speaker at slow or fast speed to make a cool shimmery effect you could mic in some interesting ways and run guitar or voice through).  The more sought-after Leslies have another spinning set of speaker horns on top too.  Thing is, Leslies cost in the several thousands and have to be kept in good condition.  So, getting an old one for $100 and making it work sounds like fun.  A project.  And summer yawns open before my feet.  A thousands of dollar Leslie cabinet hooked to the thousands of dollars Hammond B3 organ it was meant to be used with to give it a variable speed wobbly/shimmery effect would sound like this (if played by the Max Rebo Band)

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