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Leslie effects pedal and eq

I'm looking to put a Leslie effects pedal and eq on my pedalboard. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

I'm looking to put a Leslie effects pedal and eq on my pedalboard. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

the best regarded one is the DLS effects rotosound (I think that's the name)... It gets pretty close, but its pricey

the hughes and kettner tube rotosphere sounds very good, Hammond/Leslie makes a simulator too but I don't know anyone who ahs tried it

though it is not exactly a Leslie effect, the Catalinbread Pareidiola is a great Leslie-like effect based on the Blonde/Brownface era Fender all-tube 'harmonic vibrato' circuit, the blonde and brown amps with this effect built in could produce a sound that was a mix of trem and phasing that colored the high and low frequencies differently very much like a big leslie with a crossover... the Catalinbread stompbox nails the sound of this forgotten Fender effect.

Multiband EQ pedals are lame, add lots of noise and waste space... don't waste your time and money. Check out the classic colorsound power boost (aka overdriver) pedal, it has great treble and bass controls, can provide clean boost, mild transistor compression and raunchy overdrive/fuzz tones to boot all in a low-noise package. If you just want to boost a specific frequency range sometimes like mids or highs consider a dedicated booster like a rangemaster treble booster or the fulltone fatboost. If you must have multiple bands in a complex circuit I believe there is a low-noise programmable digital parametric EQ pedal on the market but damned if I know who makes it since I am a 'keep it simple' player.

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Not to point out the obvious, but the B9 and C9 probably have one between them

Glad you asked about an EQ pedal! We recently did a buyer's guide on that, check it out: The best EQ pedals.

It's interesting that the top two recommended pedals are the cheapest one followed by the most expensive one.

Hope it helps!

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Ever heard of the Line 6 Roto-Machine ? Maybe that's what you're looking for.

you can get a pretty passable faux leslie out of any decent BBD type of flanger, I recently got an old Ibanez FL9 in a trade and it can do everything from chorus to fake leslie to some of the tamer jet plane effects, you just have to be super careful with your settings

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp