Rotary pedal choices

garfy

Are there many other choices apart from the Neo Ventilator II and the Strymon Lex? Not sure how the Micro Vents compare to the big one, hoping @Gassage will be able to give his insight. Im looking for classic Leslie sounds with fast/slow options if poss, preferably footswitch controlled. 

cheers

personalnadir

Nux Roctary - has polyphonic octave and stereo out to boot

Teyeplayer

Line 6 rotomachine does a pretty reasonable job.

ICBM

Korg G4.

Whitecat

Dawner Prince Pulse if you want to go with a wilder more esoteric subject of emulation… not Leslie, but sounds fantastic. 

meltedbuzzbox

Boss rotary pedal or md500.

Gassage

Neo by a mile. Avoid the Pulse- not in same world.

I hate to admit this but the Lex is decent too.

chris45

Where do people generally have a rotary pedal in their signal chain e.g before the amp, in fx loop, not to amp at all but direct to desk etc.  I ask as the real thing is amp and speaker combined so would have thought it should bypass your guitar amp completely.

garfy

I’ve more research to do, plenty of suggestions to check out already, thank you. I’m putting this pedal on a board last in line and into the front end of my amp initially but will experiment with the loop. 

gatheredinsong

I have a Hammond Leslie G. Sounds fantastic but hard to find. 

digitalkettle

From Neo, there's the big Ventilator, the Mini Vent, and the Micros.

I've got the Mini Vent ii and it usually goes at the end of my loop.

All the magic comes from ramping between the fast and slow speeds!

ICBM

chris45 said:

Where do people generally have a rotary pedal in their signal chain e.g before the amp, in fx loop, not to amp at all but direct to desk etc.  I ask as the real thing is amp and speaker combined so would have thought it should bypass your guitar amp completely.

Ideally it should go direct to the desk/PA if it's designed as a full Leslie emulator rather than just a 'flavour of rotary speaker' effect. That's actually why I sold my G4, it was just too much faff to incorporate into a standard live guitar setup and I never really used it.

It did sound amazing though - for a long time a friend used it with his real Hammond organ so he could play through headphones at home, and it was stunningly accurate.

garfy

The Neo Micro 122 looks just the ticket, especially with the programmable footswitch options etc in a relatively small footprint. There’s a great YouTube Leslie comparison (PJ & the beard) with many of the suggestions all compared with a guitar riff, which after 28 different pedals is bouncing around in my head 

EreforGuitarGear

Sent you a PM

lukedlb

Neo Instruments all the way. The big version is often found on Hammond players too and sounds amazing on guitar. The new 122 and 16 are both great and specific for the demands of a guitarist. I have two real leslies at home and these pedals are just as good, at times better. 

garfy

lukedlb said:

Neo Instruments all the way. The big version is often found on Hammond players too and sounds amazing on guitar. The new 122 and 16 are both great and specific for the demands of a guitarist. I have two real leslies at home and these pedals are just as good, at times better. 

Thanks for the insight, the Micro 122 is my choice and can’t wait to try it. 

susbemol

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the EHX Lester pedals as they are really good.

And I'm not just saying it because I've no longer got the space for it on my board so I'll probably be putting it for sale soon!

Gulliver

If you don't want to go down the Vent route - I really like the Option 5 Destination Rotation Single. 

Mine is pretty much at the end of my signal chain (it's actually just before my tremolo but that's entirely for pragmatic layout reasons)  so I can run everything into the faux Leslie

Lewy

garfy said:

lukedlb said:

Neo Instruments all the way. The big version is often found on Hammond players too and sounds amazing on guitar. The new 122 and 16 are both great and specific for the demands of a guitarist. I have two real leslies at home and these pedals are just as good, at times better. 

Thanks for the insight, the Micro 122 is my choice and can’t wait to try it. 

I have the 16 and it’s great, although I’d prefer the Blend to have more control at the lower end

lukedlb

Lewy said:

garfy said:

lukedlb said:

Neo Instruments all the way. The big version is often found on Hammond players too and sounds amazing on guitar. The new 122 and 16 are both great and specific for the demands of a guitarist. I have two real leslies at home and these pedals are just as good, at times better. 

Thanks for the insight, the Micro 122 is my choice and can’t wait to try it. 

I have the 16 and it’s great, although I’d prefer the Blend to have more control at the lower end

I would assume that's down to the leslie 16 sound; there is no bass speaker, just an 8" or 10" since cone meaning that any bass (or highs) would be from the dry signal. Leslie 16s were run with a crossover cable so that the bass and treble were handled by the guitar amp's actual speakers with the mids going to the leslie.
On the other hand a 122 provides two speakers (15" and tweeter).

lukedlb

@merlin has my 122. I'm sure he can vouch for it too.