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Your weird piece of gear you love thread

#41
Gaolee said:
Morely oil can echo. It's a huge pedal that looks like a wah pedal, which it is, only with a big chrome box in front of the pedal. That box has a rotating can with some kind of electrostatic oil in it, and when you fire it up, it turns whatever goes in into a strange underwater version of itself. Add in the wah and volume capabilities and it is the ultimate pedal that has no obvious use. I love it. Mine needs cleaning and new oil for the time being, but I have the oil and it will worble again. It makes an Echoplex or Space Echo seem like mainstream, normal stuff.
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Holy cow. I want one:
 
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#42
JimmyM said:
Awesome! Acoustic Amps used to make a similar reverb minus pedal called the Reverbrato. Devo used to use one extensively in the old days on their home demos before they got a record deal, and once I heard this demo, I totally recognized that sound.

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The Acoustic Control version comes up for sale every now and then. I saw one for $200 in a used guitar shop out here a while ago and passed on it. That was a mistake, but I have the pedal version which I like better anyway. Actually, mine is branded PANaramic, which means it is even weirder. It's a Morley pedal, but sold as a house brand, I believe. And PANaramic was the house brand for a music shop's accordions. I don't know if this was sold as a pedal for amplified accordions or not, but they sold amplifiers for that purpose. Thinking about how strange this thing would sound with an accordion makes it even more wonderfully weird.
 
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johnpbass said:
I did see that. Adds to the mojo!
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At some point in time I did download both the user manual and the service manual in English, although in terms of use, it's pretty self explanatory. My unit gets used weekly, and also is on stage for shows or at the board for shows. We have a number of different delays, from this to a bunch of the digital units, to the reissue pedal version of the Space Echo. At any given time our setup has probably 4 or 5 delays on stage, plus some at the board.
 
#46
I don't have one of these anymore but I always liked these Wurlitzer spinning hammer tremolo speakers. Thought it sounded way better than the styrofoam salad bowl leslie type that was built into a '70's solid state T-500 Hammond we used to have.

There are two small speakers in the "hammerhead" that face away from each other and the hamner spins around.

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will33 said:
I don't have one of these anymore but I always liked these Wurlitzer spinning hammer tremolo speakers. Thought it sounded way better than the styrofoam salad bowl leslie type that was built into a '70's solid state T-500 Hammond we used to have.

There are two small speakers in the "hammerhead" that face away from each other and the hamner spins around.

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Cool. I have the mechanics and horn/motor assembly from a Leslie hanging around too. Someone 'gave' it to me and it just sort of sits in our band storage room.
 
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BurningSkies said:
Cool. I have the mechanics and horn/motor assembly from a Leslie hanging around too. Someone 'gave' it to me and it just sort of sits in our band storage room.
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The styrofoam bowl in that hammond sounded really dull compared to the wurlitzer. I tried lining the opening with tinfoil to help reflect more highs out which helped a little bit but not enough.

I do like the large Leslie cabs with the spinning horns though.
 
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will33 said:
The styrofoam bowl in that hammond sounded really dull compared to the wurlitzer. I tried lining the opening with tinfoil to help reflect more highs out which helped a little bit but not enough.

I do like the large Leslie cabs with the spinning horns though.
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Yeah, I don't have a lot of plans with the one I have sitting. Our keys player has one if the modern Leslie tops if he ever wants to use it but mostly just uses the sim of it on his Nord, since that is pretty good.
 
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will33 said:
I don't have one of these anymore but I always liked these Wurlitzer spinning hammer tremolo speakers. Thought it sounded way better than the styrofoam salad bowl leslie type that was built into a '70's solid state T-500 Hammond we used to have.

There are two small speakers in the "hammerhead" that face away from each other and the hamner spins around.
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That thing looks like it could do some damage if it let loose. I've only had Hammond organs with Leslie cabs but I love the sound of the Wurlitzer, especially with the echo.

The Leslie bottom rotor was pretty cheap plywood, nothing special. They used to wrap the drum in a cotton bag. I don't know if it was to keep the dust off it or if it was intended to act as a diffusor. The top high frequency horn came with a plastic cone shaped diffusor. A lot of people would snip them off.

Maybe the styrofoam one that you had just had a smaller drum with less of a scoop. Not sure if I ever noticed a difference between the wood and styrofoam drums of the same size.

The Fender Leslie Vibratone speaker cabinet used to have a styrofoam drum and no top horn.

 
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beans-on-toast said:
That thing looks like it could do some damage if it let loose. I've only had Hammond organs with Leslie cabs but I love the sound of the Wurlitzer, especially with the echo.

The Leslie bottom rotor was pretty cheap plywood, nothing special. They used to wrap the drum in a cotton bag. I don't know if it was to keep the dust off it or if it was intended to act as a diffusor. The top high frequency horn came with a plastic cone shaped diffusor. A lot of people would snip them off.

Maybe the styrofoam one that you had just had a smaller drum with less of a scoop. Not sure if I ever noticed a difference between the wood and styrofoam drums of the same size.

The Fender Leslie Vibratone speaker cabinet used to have a styrofoam drum and no top horn.

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It looked similar to that, yes. Built into the organ (hammond t-500), not as a separate cab.

Stationary speaker with a styrofoam bowl that spun over it with an opening in one side of the bowl. Same way people make saladbowl leslies.

I found it to be not as bright as I'd like, I assume because the speaker is firing right into a chunk of what seemed like hard styrofoam dampening the treble. As mentioned earlier I lined the opening with tinfoil which seemed to help reflect a bit better, helping more highs to "escape the bowl". But Still liked the Wurlitzer hammer a good bit better.


Off topic--an old keys player of mine made his own saladbowl leslie, using something like a nightstand as a cabinet of sorts, and a real salad bowl with a hole cut in the side, attached to a ceiling fan motor. His tremolo had 3 speeds. :)
 
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The other speakers from that Hammond sounded really nice and I still have those. They're a 12" woofer & 12" whizzer with a passive XO between them. I'll eventually get around to building a cabinet for them and incorporate a smaller powered mixer amp or something to make a sort of quasi-keys/vocal/general purpose combo amp with maybe 4 inputs.
 
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Spinning speakers like the Wurlitzer sound great.

Organs are a great source for parts if you are building an amp. Lots of tubes, transformers, speakers, etc. I have a tube based pitch shifting vibrato (AO-47) from a Hammond L-100 waiting to be incorporated into a preamp. Organ effects are so rich and full of harmonics. A lot of people have forgotten how good they sound. Unfortunately, lugging an organ around isn't high on anybody's list.
 
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#59
callofcthulhu said:
Where can I get one please?
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There are other double picks out there--but I never see them in stores, so I don't know how good they are.
Mine like this I got years ago--and wish I'd bought more--they don't make them anymore--as far as I can tell.
They are patented in Italy, and called Triplet picks-probably because you can pick with any of the three points--a double point-and two corner points--that are different thicknesses.

I now make my own with a Triangle Tortex (1mm) and a regular Tortex (1.14mm) and I use a thin double sided foam tape to join them together, offsetting the tips.
I experimented with different gauges-and that's the one I like the best.
If I saw any double picks in a store, I'd be buying them--unless the price was ridiculous.
 

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