Boss Rotary Ensemble

Just bought this pedal and its amazing it completes my pink floyd pedalboard nicely and the fast leslie tones i can cop the Arc Angels Goodtime Doyle Bramhall tone. Anyone else use this pedal or other leslie simulators

heres a pic of my set up

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I have one and it is sitting waiting to be put on one of my boards. It is a great Roto Sim and gives you a lot of tweak able parameters. Since I already have good Leslie sims in Apple Logic I haven't used it for recording.

I have one and it is sitting waiting to be put on one of my boards. It is a great Roto Sim and gives you a lot of tweak able parameters. Since I already have good Leslie sims in Apple Logic I haven't used it for recording.

yeah its a good rotor sim and i got mine for 200 new not to mention the cool light show it gives, every jam session has friends asking what does that do :cool:

I would buy one just for the fancy lights. Swooshy!

I got one used and it immediately went into my pedalboard. Sounds great and the swooshy lights are always a conversation starter. If I do have a criticism, it's the overdrive knob is a waste of space and I wish you could save settings like on the DD-20 but those are minor quibbles.

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It's one of the few leslie pedal I HAVEN'T owned... it's just too big. If I was ok keeping something that big on my smallish board (and I want to keep it smallish) I would have kept my Rotosphere. That thing was awesome.

I've heard great things about the Boss' rotary sounds, but most everybody says the drive on it sucks? What do you think?

It's one of the few leslie pedal I HAVEN'T owned... it's just too big. If I was ok keeping something that big on my smallish board (and I want to keep it smallish) I would have kept my Rotosphere. That thing was awesome.

I've heard great things about the Boss' rotary sounds, but most everybody says the drive on it sucks? What do you think?

they are great pedals , big like the guy above said but has that leslie tone colouring its great but yes the drive is subpar. If used sparingly it is ok

I got one but it never made it to my pedalboard. I plugged it into my Roland XP-50 keyboard along with an expression pedal (which adjusts the rotation speed) and it makes organ tones sound like a B3. I love it!... and the swirly lights :grin:

The overdrive is useless but with any decent OD pedal in front of it works wonders if you want that sound. Yes, it is big but so is a Leslie cab and a Leslie controller/pre amp but for the money you get a decent piece of equipment. Just don't use the overdrive.

The overdrive is useless but with any decent OD pedal in front of it works wonders if you want that sound. Yes, it is big but so is a Leslie cab and a Leslie controller/pre amp but for the money you get a decent piece of equipment. Just don't use the overdrive.

I don't accept that, if I'm going to buy it and use it, I don't want to have to SUPPLEMENT it. Especially when I can just get a Rotosphere for the same price (used), it's the same size, and has a GREAT sounding drive (as well as an amazing leslie sound.) OR a Lex for a tad more money, it's SMALLER, and it has a great sounding drive as well as great sounding leslie. Just my $0.02

I don't accept that, if I'm going to buy it and use it, I don't want to have to SUPPLEMENT it. Especially when I can just get a Rotosphere for the same price (used), it's the same size, and has a GREAT sounding drive (as well as an amazing leslie sound.) OR a Lex for a tad more money, it's SMALLER, and it has a great sounding drive as well as great sounding leslie. Just my $0.02

yeah but the lex is more transparent and does not colour the tone with leslie sounds as much as the boss and both are way more expensive then the boss, I got mine for 200 new where as it would be hard to get even a used rotosphere for 300-400. All are great pedals I think it just depends on the player I find i like the boss the most and I have tried the lex, the neo ventilator and the rotosphere and so far the boss has me the most excited to play with the neo ventilator a close second

Used rotospheres are going for 250 these days, since the Vent & Lex came out. I got mine for 275 BEFORE the Vent & Lex came out. And it wasn't tone I had a problem with, it was really just the size, and the fact that I didn't use it often enough for it to take up that much pedalboard space. But tone-wise, it was fantastic.

Used rotospheres are going for 250 these days, since the Vent & Lex came out. I got mine for 275 BEFORE the Vent & Lex came out. And it wasn't tone I had a problem with, it was really just the size, and the fact that I didn't use it often enough for it to take up that much pedalboard space. But tone-wise, it was fantastic.

damn I had no clue they have gone down in price, i might pick one up for the tube drive on it alone , don't get me wrong the rotosphere is amazing I just found the boss to add more modulation but yeah the drive is subpar