Tube warmth with FREE stereo modulation!

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:12 pm

With me playing some crappy blues guitar:
http://www.scotthelmke.com/Califone-stereo.mp3

acjetnut · Post by **acjetnut** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:20 pm

Looks neat, but I confess I don't know what exactly it is I am looking at. Can you describe it a bit?

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:16 pm

That is truly badazz. It sounds very very cool.

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:01 pm

acjetnut wrote:Looks neat, but I confess I don't know what exactly it is I am looking at. Can you describe it a bit?

Well, the oldest parts are a record player. The rest ought to be obvious.

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:18 pm

That's beautiful sounding! Subtle, but totally "there", if that makes sense. Love it.

vorian · Post by **vorian** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:25 pm

acjetnut wrote:Looks neat, but I confess I don't know what exactly it is I am looking at. Can you describe it a bit?

Simple but brilliant. You've got a record player on the bottom to provide the mechanical motion. The thing sitting on top of it is set up so that when the top tunnel is letting sound through the bottom one is blocking it off. The mics are placed so that when one is getting direct sound through a tunnel, the other is not. This creates an effect similar to that of a rotating speaker.

blackdiscoball · Post by **blackdiscoball** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:44 pm

Ive been thinking about doing something like this for a long time but the way I was trying to do it was much more complicated so I never did. I like this idea better!

ckeene · Post by **ckeene** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:58 pm

*applause*

trevord · Post by **trevord** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:23 pm

beautiful
truly in the spirit of tapeop mods

damn - means i have to try one now

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:36 am

Thanks, all. I'd tried a few different things before this, but none worked that well. The biggest problem is that a turntable won't spin as fast as a Leslie rotor, so I had to come up with some way to "multiply" the speed of the turntable. In mono this approach is 4x turntable speed, in stereo each side is 2x.

I need to come up with some sort of coffeehouse act involving this as my guitar amp.

ckeene · Post by **ckeene** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:46 am

Is the leslie effect a lot more intense when recorded (with the close miced, panned 57s) than it is when you're just listening to it in an ambient space?

davepinkham · Post by **davepinkham** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:18 am

that is fantastic! did you move the amp electronics into the turntable?

Recycled_Brains · Post by **Recycled_Brains** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:21 am

I love it!

Great idea.

nopenopenope · Post by **nopenopenope** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:09 am

Brilliant. And it sounds great too.

E-Rock · Post by **E-Rock** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:30 am

Dude, that completly rules.
Nice job. Sounds great!
I've got an old turntable I'm not using, guess what, just found a use for it!
Thanks!
-e

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