Leslie speaker 4 guitar amp

Hey,

Check out the lleslie speaker I built from scratch (no actual "leslie parts") using home improvement store materials . You can hear it by going here:

http://www.myspace.com/493916098

Looks cool:thu: Got any pictures of the insides?

Sorry no inside pics, I went thru quite a bit of trial and mostly error.

You glorious citizen. Leslie speaker projects come up as much as anything here, and you go and build one and then won't walk us through the process. Good day, sir.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You've pulled off something many people have tried to do here. I'm beggin you for a little enlightenment.

Lemme cool off, I don't take kindly to anyone who insults me mum!

Seriously, I'd be really interested in a description of the materials and process.

Back in the 70's I had a Cordovox, which was a "Leslie" for accordion players. It sounded incredible and I was kind of known for it. Stock, it came with an 8" speaker that fired into the hard styrofoam rotor. I regularly fried those speakers. I could not find an 8 inch speaker that could deal with the output of my Guild Thunderbass head... the Thunderbass was one of the first available amps ever with a master volume.

Finally, I purchsed a JBL 10" speaker for the cab. Back then JBL was pretty much THE choice in speakers that could deal with higher power levels. It took some alteration to both the speaker opening as well as gouging out a hole for the speaker's magnet. I took my time and with a crude drill bit hat had teeth for rapid removal of wood, then a finer it to make the cuts not so rough, my finished job, while obviously homemade, looked pretty good. Not only that, it couldn't even be seen unless I opened the back of the cab.

Back in the 70's it sounded other worldly. I didn'y play it for many songs for fear of blowing th e speaker again, but the one song where she was used in full glory was "You Keep Me Hangin' On" - the Vanilla Fudge version. Nobody in my region could touch that tone, and the way the rotor picked up speed and slowed down was absolutely physical.

"Leslie" pedals have come a long way, but there is just no substitute for those decibels swirling around the room. You don't only hear it, you actually feel it. That's something that can't be captured in CDs or tapes. Today, people have heard the guitar through Leslie on record or CD and enjoy the "effect". They even buy pedals and proclaim "THIS NAILS THE LESLIE SOUND!!". Man, you just can't know about it until you are in the physical presence of a rotary speaker doing what it dies. It literally moves you.

Of course it's a bitch to haul around, so that's a primary reason they have lost enormous ground to effects pedals.