Jode Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 I recently set up my Hammond M3 for recording with a 1/4" out, running it through my SWR Triad bass cabinet. The dry miked signal sounds awesome: clear as a bell, very "tacky" with key click, and easy to distort. All I had for Leslie, though, is my partner's Line 6 Modulation Modeler, using the "Rotary Drum" patch. The stereo effect and speed changes sound great, and the low rotor simulator is actually pretty impressive - you can hear two rotor speeds at once - but the sound itself is a little muted. It's not really noisy, like you'd expect a stompbox signal to be, but it's missing that crystalline presence that the miked signal had in the highs and high mids. We haven't begun mixing yet, so I don't have any trial-and-error findings to report yet. Anyone got any suggestions before we begin? I should also add that I'm thinking of running the signal through my friend's Line 6 Distortion Modeler in a few places for some tasty valve overdrive; could that help wake up the signal? (I should also add that I'm considering saying "to hell with it" and scrapping the stompbox tracks and recutting the dry signal through a Motion Sound or real-live Leslie, if I can ever get access to one, but the stompbox signal could be really good if it were only more 'present'.) "I had to have something, and it wasn't there. I couldn't go down the street and buy it, so I built it." Les Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Hughes Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 "It's not really noisy, like you'd expect a stompbox signal to be, but it's missing that crystalline presence that the miked signal had in the highs and high mids." have you tried running the Line 6 box into a speaker (or two for stereo) and then miking that? It might add some "air" to the sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jode Posted April 22, 2003 Author Share Posted April 22, 2003 I thought about that. I don't have two speaker cabinets that I can use for that, though. However, renting them would be easier than finding a Leslie for rent. "I had to have something, and it wasn't there. I couldn't go down the street and buy it, so I built it." Les Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Hughes Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Are you mixing through studio monitors? Try miking them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyofgee Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 I also use an M3 and what I am currently doing is just plain miking my M3 speaker into a digital Fx stomp box for leslie Fx. I can also add another keyboard sound through the in-put using 1/4 jack end for added keyboard and that smaller 1/8 jack on the other end connected to my M3 amp. How did you connect your 1/4 out? are you still able to get your M3 vibrato/percussion sounds that way? keyofgee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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