Rotating mic??

[kubbmeister]

has anyone made one or thought about how to do it?

my idea is to take one of those T mic holders you use to hold a stereo pair together (follow?) and then at the bottom of the stand attach some kind of motor that would make the stand spin so the mics would spin...(still following?) Thus producing a kinda Leslie sound.

what im doing at the moment is i use a crappy keyboard pluged into my drum machine as a sequencer and use the organ sound and feed that through my Vox. it sounds decent to some extent but maybe if it had a more Leslie sound it would be abit more interesting.
And reason # 2 is it sounds pretty cool and fun to use on other stuff...-Andrew

[rhythm ranch]

Watch those cables!

[Meriphew]

You could tape a wireless mic to a turntable.

[cgarges]

You could tape a wireless mic to a turntable.

Or a fan. Or hang a mic from the ceiling and swing it. Or put a mic behind a fan. Or have someone in the band swing the mic around near the source.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[kubbmeister]

well since the wires are going to get in the way, anyone know how the Leslie dose it?

[psychicoctopus]

well since the wires are going to get in the way, anyone know how the Leslie dose it?

The drivers aren't moving, just the horn radiators.

[thebeard]

the band coil did something like this once. they all set up in a circle around a ceiling fan, taped a mic to it and played the song with the fan turning.

with this type of setup you shouldn't have to worry about twisting cables, just secure one end to the floor and give it some slack. depending on the speed of rotation you might need a good windscreen on the mic though.

[b3groover]

well since the wires are going to get in the way, anyone know how the Leslie dose it?

The drivers aren't moving, just the horn radiators.

On the older Leslies, yes. The drivers fire into baffles and the baffles rotate.

However Leslie did develop a rotating drum that had a 6x9 speaker mounted inside the drum. They called this the "rotosonic" Leslie. It used a patented slip-ring design that Don Leslie called "mercotac" for the connection to the speaker. He actually made a bunch of money off that invention... they still use a derivative of it in the robot industry.

The easiet thing to do, as someone already mentioned, would be to have someone swing a mic around or mount it on a slow moving ceiling fan. A better, but harder solution would be to do it "leslie" style: Take some old mics, somehow expose the diaphragms and then create little rotating baffles that direct sound from the into the diaphragm. That would be cool!