by Hugh-AR » 30 Apr 2019 23:07
Hi James,
For the first organ I had it was a toss-up between a Gulbranson and a Farfisa. The Gulbranson had an 'Electronic Leslie' whereas the Farfisa had a mechanical one. I much preferred the sound of the Farfisa internal Leslie so ended up with the Farfisa Balmoral. The Leslie speaker in the Farfisa had a polystyrene 'drum' that spun round a fairly large fixed speaker. In the side of the drum there was a 3" 'slot' so the sound emanated from there as the drum spun. This 'threw the sound around the room' which to me was an amazing effect. And then of course moving between 'Fast Leslie' and 'Slow Leslie' it was the drum spinning between the two, which being mechanical took an age to get to the endpoint. I thought that was wonderful! I often find that a purely 'electronic' Leslie switches from one mode to the other far to quickly and the 'effect' from fast to slow, to fast is somehow lost. Maybe you can control the time span on your Korg? I have no option on my current organ, the Yamaha AR 80 (which has an Electronic Tremolo, as it's called) and the change is immediate.
The only problem I had with the Farfisa was that I couldn't play it with headphones. Well, headphones were supplied but you were warned in the blurb that the headphones were only for practising. Obvious really, as you can't get a sound created mechanically to go through the headphones. My AR 80 sounds great played through headphones, and I have a LINE OUT to record exactly how the organ sounds when I play it.
Hugh
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