Anyone use a Hammond/Leslie amp to play through?

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I've been toying around with the idea of buy an old Hammond Organ (Leslie) amp off of eBay. I have several preamps so I have my choice of what I want to drive it with. I guess I would like to know if anyone else has tried this and what results they got. I do remember years ago playing through a Leslie speaker/amp in an organ store and loved the way it sounded.
 
Oh yeah. I have a 147 that I love pump just about everything through. It's the size of a chest freezer so moving it's a pain (literally).
 
Track Rat said:
Oh yeah. I have a 147 that I love pump just about everything through. It's the size of a chest freezer so moving it's a pain (literally).
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Be glad that you don't have a 31H! Those things stand 71 inches tall. The closest I've come to playing guitar through a rotary speaker is, my Line 6 Guitar POD 2.0. The Leslie System 21, and Motion Sound products seem like they'd have potential, but I gotta be able to afford them, first.
 
I have played through one on some recordings, cool effects. SRV used them alot. :)
 
You cannot beat the sound of a real leslie, but they are so heavy. I used to play hammond in a band and used a leslie, but when it came to doing gigs the transportation was always an issue. When you will just be working on one location I guess it will not be so much of a pain.

These days there so many alternatives for that leslie sound, so you may not need the real thing.

I even played tapes with a taperecorder through it, and can remember listening to the intro of "Hotel California" by the Eagles and it really sounded big as the intro itself has some of that swirling sound, so the leslie made it even bigger.

Leslies and Hammonds went out of fashion in the 80s then we saw a revival in the 90s but at the moment you do not see many of them around.

Cheers,

Eddie
 
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