Comments on: Maestro FX units of 1972

By: Mick White

Mick White — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:04:39 +0000

I’m looking for info on a completely different FX unit called the Gibson Maestro – it looked a bit like part of an organ with rocker switches. Ian Underwood put his sax thru one on Zappa’s Hot Rats album. Thanks, Mick White (UK)

By: bafflegab

bafflegab — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:05:11 +0000

Looks like David Gilmour was a big Maestro Rover user:

://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=83

I STILL say that if you want to make something that will SELL, make a good small guitar amp like the Univalve, that will act as a preamp/controller for stock Leslies-both the 122/147 and the later 11 pin ones. People playing places where there is a house Hammond and Leslie can plug it in and use it if there is no Hammond player, and the same if going in a studio.

By: Joey D'Kaye

Joey D'Kaye — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:45:16 +0000

The Ring Modulator didn’t “spring from the Maestro Engineering Department”, it sprang from Tom Oberheim, who sold the design to Maestro’s marketing department. And their Phase Shifters too. There was the Mini-Phaser, and the organ player in my high school garage band had the big three switch Maestro PS-1A phaser pedal she used with her Vox Continental organ – it was the poor band’s Leslie! The three fat lever switches were speed controls, and the speed accelerated and decelerated like a Leslie. But the full effected sound was a bit too much, so we came up with a trick to make it more “natural” sounding – split the signal with a Y-cable and mixed the phased and dry signals using the two channels in her Gibson Thor amplifier. (That’s right… Thor!)

Great Maestro Phase Shifter page here:

http://www.wingspreadrecords.com/maestro_ps1_page.html

By: bafflegab

bafflegab — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:49:39 +0000

They actually sold some of this stuff.