Post your favorite example of Leslie and/or vibe being used on guitar.

[W.L.Weller]

Apparently Buddy's amp broke halfway through the session so the engineer rigged up something to get Buddy's guitar into the Leslie.



The organ-sounding parts on this are played by Charlie Hunter on one of his custom 8-string Novax. Not sure what the specific signal chain is for the rotating speaker sounds. Maybe another H&K Rotosphere example?

 

[4pickupguy]

If Uni-Vibe counts -

I almost posted this as a vibe example. Jimi had a way of making that Univibe sound huge.

Point off for me as I thought this would be one of the first ones posted:

 

[4pickupguy]

My favorite is from one album before this.
Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell, from Rio Grande Mud.
That whole album is their masterpiece, IMO.

Had to post it:

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Taj Mahal's Giant Step.

 

[Fiesta Red]

The song that finally tripped my trigger and sent me on a very long Leslie Simulator Pedal Journey*:



*After trying and/or buying more than a dozen devices, I landed on the Boss RT-20 Rotary Ensemble, which my dearest darlin’ bought me that year for our anniversary…there have been some better devices developed and released since then, but the RT-20 is still working fine and I don’t want to let go of $400 for a slight improvement on a pedal I use (at most) two to three songs per gig.

 

[Mowgli]

Danny Gatton's Leslie work is also outstanding but I love the way Frampton builds this solo with the voice box, the wah and the leslie. I saw him do this song live twice and each time it was an other world experience. One of the finest rock guitarists I've ever seen.

 

[Hodgo88]

Well, there’s Robin Trower:



And then there’s Paul Gilbert doing a Robin Trower thing. I LOVE playing this song, and I think it’s one of the tastiest things he’s done.

 

[1955]

Don’t have a favorite, but I like Gatton’s last concert.

 

[TwoBear]

Post your favorite example of Leslie and/or vibe being used on guitar. Extra points for less obvious examples… Go!

Plastic Arion box-I loved that shouldn’t have sold it-I even use that setting on my pod go.
I’ve got that gold Boss 2pedal one, w/the spinning graphics, it’s OK as is but I like it better with a expression pedal-I made a simple one with a pot in a Bud box, and a large knob. Ramping up and down is the important part it really gives an exciting movement, especially going through verses & chorus and what not. Old MXR P45 not bad. There’s a trim pot inside if you’re brave, you can manipulate it and change the sound. I think They were set at the factory for the widest waveform. I have heard some sound more like a Leslie than others. Could be that over time parts drift. If you choose to manipulate it, I would think at the least to put a line pencil line somewhere to help you get back, or maybe better yet take resistance readings from both ends against the middle wiper.

The Boss has stereo ins & outs, & headphone out + guitar/keyboard switch. There’s a knob with a center detent for the rotor and horn, Which doubles as a depth control when it’s in UniVibe setting-so three Leslie’s and a UniVibe, not bad! There is also a knob for overdrive, but on mine it comes on too heavy at first, No matter how finely I try to turn, it’s nothing then too much. It sounds like the overdrive may be mixed in parallel? I usually prefer my RotoVibe distorted, for that thicker solo sound. I’ve got dirt pedals before and after it for different sounds.

I played a little, I think it was brown plastic Dan Electro pedal… you know the ones with names like pastrami sandwich-And I was pretty knocked out with that little thing it ramped up and sounded darn good for what it was.

 

[Slip Kid]

I’m surprised that this hasn’t been posted yet,

 

[stephent2]

The great Robert Ward and his Magnatone amp w/ vibrato.

 

[TwoBear]

The song that finally tripped my trigger and sent me on a very long Leslie Simulator Pedal Journey*:



*After trying and/or buying more than a dozen devices, I landed on the Boss RT-20 Rotary Ensemble, which my dearest darlin’ bought me that year for our anniversary…there have been some better devices developed and released since then, but the RT-20 is still working fine and I don’t want to let go of $400 for a slight improvement on a pedal I use (at most) two to three songs per gig.

Ha ha you just said in the paragraph and a half what it took me a long blather and then some to get to basically the same place.

 

[willietheweirdo]

 

[TwoBear]

Last one to get it-I didn’t know we were supposed to post recordings. I will say I have owned a few Leslie 16s and played 122s that were modified to play guitar through, even now I have a Cordovox…2 speeds are better than one, the pedals can sound good recorded, and live, but the real ones-that’s a whole Nother thing! I don’t know about outside. I never played one outside, but smaller stages and bars-it adds another dimension to the sound-maybe multi dimensional, I guess as it’s bouncing off of different surfaces. And the rotor and the horn on top going in different directions!!! I think there’s a recording of Jan Akkerman? Apologies if that is spelled wrong, I double checked it against what I thought with Google-it’s a cut off their live album… I’ll look for it and add it to the post unless somebody already has it?

 

[Shaolin Wolf]

Is this a Leslie? About 1:07 in this song, possibly even the chord parts before, I was never really sure, Page has a lot of tricks up his sleeve in the studio

 

[Gladhander]

Not a song but a pedal. The Fender pinwheel is an excellent rotary.

 

[4pickupguy]

I’m surprised that this hasn’t been posted yet,

Good one!!

 

[willietheweirdo]

Is this a Leslie? About 1:07 in this song, possibly even the chord parts before, I was never really sure, Page has a lot of tricks up his sleeve in the studio

When I saw the album cover I thought it was gonna be the obvious one!

Still worth a listen every once in a while. Really nailed that gargly 'spongebob' tone

 

[memorex]

I can't say for sure if this done with a vibe pedal or an actual whammy bar, but the delayed vibrato on the rhythm guitar is a beautiful effect on this song.

 

[LOSTVENTURE]

Michael Allsup, guitarist for Three Dog Night used the Leslie on quite a few of the early seventies albums.