Comments on: Leslie Rotating-Speaker Interface Unit – UPDATED

By: Michael Tymm

Michael Tymm — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 23:38:33 +0000

I am interested in building this to interface my electronics keyboards into my Leslie model 51. Do you have a schematic for this box?

By: Roger Russton

Roger Russton — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:57:11 +0000

The studio interface is not going to run a guitar direct in. You want one unit that will take the guitar lead in in one end and drive the Les from the other.

Unfortunately, there are not that many guitarists that really want Leslie. It’s a great sound, but until someone does it AGAIN on a big hit or a guitar magazine poster boy track, no one is going to buy one.

By: rickc074

rickc074 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:04:00 +0000

a studio interface for the 122 leslie is findable on my website: http://www.uneeda-audio.com/leslie and a description of the hammond b/c3 (pre)amplifier with a circuit description of the harmonic percussion circuit can be found at: http://www.uneeda=audio.com/stuff

By: Brad Rinkert

Brad Rinkert — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:12:50 +0000

I absolutely agree the Leslie is as good for guitar as for organ, but the sheer size makes it not something you want to haul around. If you’re on tour or otherwise playing out or if you have a B-3 in the house, you can rent, or have there a Leslie, but it’s a 122 or 145/147.

You want to use the other guy’s. He won’t take kindly to modding it, so you want a box that interfaces with it, or any other Leslie you may find. You want all the common Leslie interfaces then, which are the 6 pin and an 11 pin if I remember right.

Yes, there’s the Leslie combo preamp, but that’s a kluge for rock guitarists. Better would be a tube amp that can work as a preamp with a dummy load-a modified Champ, or the Canadian Garnet Herzog…or a THD Univalve-which also has the switches and connectors to run the Leslie.

You’d think someone would make one. The logical vendor in fact would be Andy Marshall of THD, but he isn’t going to do it, probably because it wasn’t his idea. Neither is Aspen Pittman, who has the tech chops of a rutabaga anyway. Maybe someone else will pick up on this idea.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:50:55 +0000

In reply to Ron Roth.

http://www.captain-foldback.com/Leslie_sub/combo_preamps.htm

By: Ron Roth

Ron Roth — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:45:53 +0000

Do you know of an interface for guitar to leslie that would work with a leslie 147 or251