I’ve had an original TC Stereo Chorus/Flanger for years, the one Eric Johnson used for his sound, but not for chorus or flanger. I kept the switch between them on the Vibrato setting and, running into a stereo amp setup, let the slow modulation pitch warble create chorus in the air on the way to the audience to mix in their ears. It’s more delicate.
In the FX2 forums (I think it was) Cliff talked about not modeling the amp of the Leslie unit because it used too much CPU, which I interpret as meaning there wasn’t enough bang for the buck then. I wonder if that has changed since then to allow pushing the amplifier, because that seems like it’d be the fastest path to nailing the Leslie sound, from clean to mean.
I stole Greg's version of the rotary and it is really quite incredible. It's taken some getting used to, as it is NOT like pedals I have used. I actually quite like the brake settings as well. A
Yup!
Thank you, I never expected anyone to say that 'bout it. I think the brake mode is a huge part of the expressiveness of the rotary, especially when using it as a contrast to fast.
It's in several posts but has slowly morphed over time.
A real Leslie relies on the cabinet's and room's walls bouncing the sound from the spinning drum and rotor, and if I remember right, Doppler shift. A single sound source isn't going to reproduce that, and a stereo rig still won't do it right because it's not moving. Possibly using some Dolby ATMOS encoding on top of the Rotary block would help because it would add additional hints for the sound source, but I wouldn't be surprised if that would add some real CPU load and would involve licensing fees.
Yeah Leslie-in-the-room is certainly a thing, but the Neo Instruments Ventilator and Mini-Vent do a pretty righteous job of it, based on the vids I've seen (never tried either myself).
They're OK. Strymon's Lex is my favorite of standalone Rotary pedals. Their white paper on how they accomplished it is interesting.
Never heard the Lex in person either, but they make great stuff.
I am the same way. I still have my original pedal board, which has many nice-sounding pedals on it, but I like the flexibility of the Fractal and find its blocks sound good enough to keep me happy. And, anymore, I'm a "straight into the single channel amp" guy so, even though I have a small selection of effects in a preset, I rarely use them. I turn up the guitar and go.
Speed = 0 is a braked rotary. Real Leslies have that, and you'll hear it often on blues and rock records. It's different than bypassing the block because the sound is still what you'd hear coming from the horn and drum. It's an interesting sound because the horn and drum slow at different speeds and it's pretty apparent then. A real unit takes about 5 seconds to slow the drum but that is too slow for me so I shortened it to 3.5 sec.
Do I gather you've compared the Lex to one of the Vent pedals yourself?
Not on my board, but listening in the same room. The sound was no better than Strymon, the real Leslie had “that sound.”
