Tips on Leslie Cabinets

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In this clip, we're going to be talking about the Leslie Speaker. Which is an external hardware piece. A speaker cabinet that is separate from the Hammond Organ. A completely different company made it. And, in fact the guy who invented the Hammond hated the sound of the Leslie Speaker. So, back in the day in the sixties and seventies when these guys were kind of in their hay day. You couldn't buy the two together. You had to go out and buy one and then buy the other. And, then find somebody that could modify your Hammond to make it work on a Leslie Speaker. So, a lot of times you'll see controls. One, of these big things about the Leslie Speaker they're basically a spinning speaker that can spin slowly or it can spin fast. And, that's where you get that interesting sound. A lot of times, you'll see the controls with the fast/slow toggle Leslie speed over here in the left side of the organ. It's just kind of what they call a half moon switch. So, you can switch slow to fast over here. A lot of times, I'll be playing with two hands on the organ. Or, either playing with one hand or doing draw bar stuff with the. So, I like to use a foot pedal down here to switch it between fast and slow. Just, you click it once it goes fast. You click it again and it goes slow. So, you hear. So, this is a Leslie Speaker Cabinet. This is a model one forty-seven. The one forty-seven and the one twenty-two are the most popular ones kind like the B-three and the C-three are. Some of them will just have one spinning speaker. Some of them will have just have one speed that they spin at. But, this one has two speeds. And, it is has two sets of speakers. Actually, the speakers sit right here and right here. This does the upper sounds and this does the lower sounds. And, then the air is pushed through those spinning horns. And, you can see it takes them a second to speed up. This one speeds up instantly. And, that one takes awhile to speed up. So, you get these two different kinds of variations in your sound. Which, you can use to your advantage when you're playing your Hammond. Now, what you have here is a Leslie Pre-Amp. So, you can plug a guitar into your Leslie. A lot of guitar players back in the sixties and seventies and even today would use those. You hear George Harrison use them a lot on like 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and that sort of thing. So, you can plug that into here. And this goes into you're, this plugs straight into the Leslie. And, you get that Leslie sound through any instrument that you want.

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