The red paint on cut surfaces in museums is so that the viewer of the object can distinguish between what is original to the object and what the museum has done to enhance it.
indeed but why always red. not any other colour. i mean its a solid colour for that, but i have never seen one with another colour. recon one person did it and everyone just went ooh red a good idea
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I'll just put my totally unfunded idea out here, usually anti-rust paints were red so I guess they just painted the freshly cut part red to avoid rust and then it stuck
Fun fact: In Black Hole Sun, Chris Cornell plugged into a Marshall head which was plugged into a Lesley speaker. He used a slow speed for the melody line and a fast speed for the slide part
With all the organ stuff of all types that you've collected and converted to midi, you could cobble together one heck of an instrument if you assembled them all together. And I approve of the choice to cut those speakers in a museum setting. When i was younger, I never had any idea how those worked. I always wondered how you make a speaker rotate.
Just wanted to say that the inside of that controller box looked incredibly neat and tidy when you finished up. I know you make it seem like you're just bashing stuff together, but I think the results clearly show your professionalism!
Phew you didn't half put a lot of work into that lot. I physically felt your pain when the amp blew. Well worth all the effort though Leslie speakers are the best man and to have that many working is next level, well done Sam! 😊
I am sure Mr Stockdale would love the work you are doing, not necessarily the music (different generation) but he would love that younger generations are doing their thing with the equipment. Keep up the good work Sam.
I used to love bunging my SH-101 into the Leslie input of my friends ancient old Gem organ, it sounded well cool! I can only imagine how awesome an analogue synth would sound going into four at once!
When you started playing the tape machine through it it gave me the most fantastic vibe of an experimental 70s animation film about faeries or The Hobbit or something
I can feel the fun you are having. I am getting on a bit but I learn so much from your channel.. What’s the phrase… Old dog, new tricks. Don’t think so.. All the best Alex.
Just saw the teskey brothers at a festival they had a Hammond and Leslie on stage and sounded awesome, I can't imagine the stage hands backs were so happy though 😊😊
It was awesome seeing you sitting there with the Korg, surrounded by rotary sound! And then you put the icing on the cake by bringing out the CZ101, which was one of the first synths I owned. Happy memories...! And yes, those speakers are HEAVY. I used to use a twin-cab Sharma Jubilee 7000 rotary amp with my Hammond X5 organ back in the 1990s, and I still reckon that the back pain I suffered about a decade later was probably one result of lifting those monsters in and out of vans...
This looks like a blast to play. The larger Leslie with the wood baffle and no horn rotor may be a model 125. I have chopped my own down to be piano bench height. It was modified to control the speed and break with my heel using a three way switch on the back wired to the Leslie socket.
Awesome video Sam! I have five Leslie cabinets in my studio and have planned to make an Ambisonic Leslie array from them. You've inspired me to get into this project and get it done. 😎
Sam, try this idea, take all of your source signals in to a matrix mixer first then to your Leslie controller. By doing this you open up the ability to create stereo and quadrophonic mixes. I have done a similar setup with two Leslies and a stereo mixer in a church and had impressive results. If I can find the diagram of what I did I will try to get it to you so that you may use it as a reference point. Good luck with your festival project.
Yes, at 10:30, we used to get Leslie's in regularly because Roadies would force the connectors into the back of the cabinets without checking they were going in correctly!
The "mystery" leslie looks like it was chopped, based on the different top panel material (it looks like MDF), and the rounded cabinet corners that meet said panel, which should be squared off near the top (mirroring the bottom). There's a good chance the single upper rotor originally came from that cabinet. If that's the case, it may have started its life as a 145, or a 45 and the two-speed motor stacks were added later.
"... Where's all the sound comin' from?", inspires imaginings of optical art in that small space --- the type that requires a a first layer of paint in hues complementary to the speaker perhaps (allowed to cure) followed by duct tape applied in visually challenging pattern, followed by another layer of paint and then once dry, peel away the tape to reveal the pattern. Finally, combine that with the sound output. That is what I imagine.
@@theelmonk Perhaps kinesthetic art, such as a panel with a matrix of metal discs each dangling from a finishing nail that respond to changes in vibration or air currents.
Jeebus. I have a pair 122s that already sound mind bending. About the only thing I poke about is the cutting of the baffles. Part of the sound effect comes from the reflections within those baffles. A mostly common practice to up the volume and visual is to place the boxes back-out and just remove the sound-space boards.
YEs to loving organ sounds in childhood that eventually virtually almost but not quite become part of our DNA, DNR, DMT the whole cosmical shebang or make up or actual pulse as beating bleeding hearts, illuminating our aura in every shade of the rainbow and beyonf ...
A subtle yet generous synesthetic op-art complement on those walls would be amazing. Of course, the real challenge is avoiding renderings that confuse or torment.
ew no, that guy is bullshit drama clickbaity. This guy comes across like a regular guy that would be doing this if the internet existed or not, and he runs a museum. The colin furze guy knows what he's doing with fabrication somewhat, but its still mostly social media advertising reality tv garbage
I have a 147 RV made in 1966 that I use in my music room to play Organ,Bass or guitar through. It's plenty loud enough . 4 being driven by a solid state per amp would be massively loud.
I like how relatively simple leslie speakers are but they sound so cool. I imagine the sound varies depending on how they sync up too, could be interesting to add a way to control that.
I once did a live mix with a Lesley and 4 microphones. It was a small venue and we had a large PA, so I put 4 speakers in the corners of the venue and fed them with a powered line. People reported that they were experiencing "vertigo" when the Lesley Speaker spun up.
The bigger cabinets are model 125, though they normally come with their own amp. I've worked on rebuilding them (recapping the amp etc), including the motors with their shaded pole motors and relays that engage an extra wheel for double speed. Its bigger brother is the 251, and there's a 'living room' version that looks nice called the 351 though it's just a cosmetic upgrade.
The late great Graham Bond (Hammond organist and one of the most influential musicians ever to NOT be a household name) sometimes used four Leslie speakers during gigs, one at each corner of the stage. I'm sure he would have approved!
Wauw, just love how you can fiddle around with those old vintage but very cool technologies. Wish I'd could've helped you but living in the Netherlands and a daily commute is a bit far
there's something cozy about the particular way these do vibrato. i don't know what it is but it's different than the tremolo wheel or whatever on a synth
Think I remember from when I was a sound tech, that speaktaron cables work the same way as jacks, so you need to turn off the amps before connecting or unplugging them.
I would like to suggest adding LEDs, you choose the colour, inside the speaker cabinets above the open vents and putting a strip of reflective tape along the bottom of the opening on the baffle. This will add a visual pulse to highlight the audio pulse. Painting the rest of the baffle black will accentuate the visual effect, but could be skipped if you don’t want to stray too far from the traditional look of the devices.
Hear me out. Stepper motors - Angular control and sync modes. BPM matching. That would be insane. You could place 4 of them in 4 corners and phase each one from the next a specific amount of angle.
I would love for you to do a quad or 5.1 recording with these, youtube does support 5.1 but the playback of it is a little annoying, gotta use the right browser or fire stick or whatever.
This actually makes me nauseous to think about. Getting the rotations to sync would be crazy. I know a backline guy that has a Leslie he covered in truck bed lining.
You mean Rino Coat. I know a friend that coated his whole truck with it in white . He never washed it and you would never know. It always looks clean. I always teased him asking if it made his trruck go faster and farther like a golf ball .lol
Sam, you like, need to hook up stepper motors to all four speakers, plus an encoder, so you actually *know* their position. Then, use a little clever maths and a central controller to adjust all of their speeds/positions simultaneously, so you basically wind up sitting in the middle of a massive ring modulator.
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Yeah, i saw where you mentioned adding one. But you're a damned genius. I bet you could figure out how to retrofit 4x of them without destroying them. ;)
@@BenKDesigns you could! but i love how reliable and just minimal fuss the original function is. im leaving these ones as is. who knows maybe stere stepper motor ones. but these are staying as is :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Fair enough. I'll settle for that cover of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" by the Kinks. Tell me you haven't thought that'd be cool as hell. :P ua-cam.com/video/fUo9TIkSicw/v-deo.html
I realize back in the day they didn't pay as much attention to electrical safety, but you still have to wonder WTF they were thinking with some things, "oh let's put the audio signal in the same cable as several pairs of mains voltage." What could go wrong! And use a connector with the pins in a circle, for good measure.
to be honest its quite a good connector as 2 pins at top are slightly larger but yet it is hourrendous at the same time, and if i was not making it permanent out of reach i would have put something better on. the metal contacts are not far from the actual top of the socket, even on the proper ones. not the safest method in the world no
It is not possible to mike one Leslie for real, let alone four !!! The effect is 3D. Any reproduction is 2D ...Anyway: this video was super cool. I am a big fan !
The red paint on cut surfaces in museums is so that the viewer of the object can distinguish between what is original to the object and what the museum has done to enhance it.
indeed but why always red. not any other colour. i mean its a solid colour for that, but i have never seen one with another colour. recon one person did it and everyone just went ooh red a good idea
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTERmaybe it's because nobody reasonable would paint parts of an engine red in any other situation
@@tommihommi1 That is my thinking and and like you I am usually right
@@tommihommi1 but all my mini engines are red :''O
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I'll just put my totally unfunded idea out here, usually anti-rust paints were red so I guess they just painted the freshly cut part red to avoid rust and then it stuck
“Flat blade screws, bane of my life”. I couldn’t agree more 😆
Blame his kin for those works of the devil
I just flew from the US to the UK a week ago to see the museum. It's definitely worth the visit! I wish I'd known about the music festival though.
This is hands down the best music technology channel. Very creative and original. Sam you are an inspiration. .
It would be awesome if he came to the US and did a show.
Fun fact:
In Black Hole Sun, Chris Cornell plugged into a Marshall head which was plugged into a Lesley speaker.
He used a slow speed for the melody line and a fast speed for the slide part
well thats probably why the sun turned into a black hole
Didn't the Beatles do that, or Clapton with Cream?
The guitar solo in Aerosmith's "What it Takes" also uses a Leslie!
With all the organ stuff of all types that you've collected and converted to midi, you could cobble together one heck of an instrument if you assembled them all together.
And I approve of the choice to cut those speakers in a museum setting. When i was younger, I never had any idea how those worked. I always wondered how you make a speaker rotate.
Just wanted to say that the inside of that controller box looked incredibly neat and tidy when you finished up. I know you make it seem like you're just bashing stuff together, but I think the results clearly show your professionalism!
Phew you didn't half put a lot of work into that lot. I physically felt your pain when the amp blew. Well worth all the effort though Leslie speakers are the best man and to have that many working is next level, well done Sam! 😊
I am sure Mr Stockdale would love the work you are doing, not necessarily the music (different generation) but he would love that younger generations are doing their thing with the equipment. Keep up the good work Sam.
I used to love bunging my SH-101 into the Leslie input of my friends ancient old Gem organ, it sounded well cool! I can only imagine how awesome an analogue synth would sound going into four at once!
Hah I love the red painted cutaway bits!
Vandal
When you started playing the tape machine through it it gave me the most fantastic vibe of an experimental 70s animation film about faeries or The Hobbit or something
Go Ralph Bakshi!
Proper installation with proper ambition. 4 x yes and a quad hand shake. This is the purest of quality
The setup with the tape loops is so cool!
I can feel the fun you are having. I am getting on a bit but I learn so much from your channel.. What’s the phrase… Old dog, new tricks. Don’t think so.. All the best Alex.
Never seen that many Leslies together ever. Awesome..
I genuinely think this is one of the most magical and coolest installations on this planet
If ever there was a setup that needed a binaural recording!
indeed!!! i gotta get on the phone to thomann to send one of those head tignige to borrow haha
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Hainbach has one of these things too :)
More than binaural. Doesn't the effect change when you turn or move your head ?
@@theelmonk Seems like it would. This is probably an effect that not even Ambisonics could capture. You'd probably need VR to replicate it.
Just saw the teskey brothers at a festival they had a Hammond and Leslie on stage and sounded awesome, I can't imagine the stage hands backs were so happy though 😊😊
It was awesome seeing you sitting there with the Korg, surrounded by rotary sound! And then you put the icing on the cake by bringing out the CZ101, which was one of the first synths I owned. Happy memories...! And yes, those speakers are HEAVY. I used to use a twin-cab Sharma Jubilee 7000 rotary amp with my Hammond X5 organ back in the 1990s, and I still reckon that the back pain I suffered about a decade later was probably one result of lifting those monsters in and out of vans...
This looks like a blast to play. The larger Leslie with the wood baffle and no horn rotor may be a model 125. I have chopped my own down to be piano bench height. It was modified to control the speed and break with my heel using a three way switch on the back wired to the Leslie socket.
Very Pink Floyd Live at Pompei vibe. Wonderful tones.
Awesome video Sam! I have five Leslie cabinets in my studio and have planned to make an Ambisonic Leslie array from them. You've inspired me to get into this project and get it done. 😎
Out of this world. You looked like you where sitting in the middle of some sort of UFO prototype. Love it.
Absofrickin-lutely amazing! I love this! Musical mad science!! Im so happy about this all being part of a museum as well, I just love this channel!
An integrated phase control would be really cool. Surely, you've thought of this. You are a genius.
Sam, try this idea, take all of your source signals in to a matrix mixer first then to your Leslie controller. By doing this you open up the ability to create stereo and quadrophonic mixes. I have done a similar setup with two Leslies and a stereo mixer in a church and had impressive results. If I can find the diagram of what I did I will try to get it to you so that you may use it as a reference point. Good luck with your festival project.
Yes, at 10:30, we used to get Leslie's in regularly because Roadies would force the connectors into the back of the cabinets without checking they were going in correctly!
The "mystery" leslie looks like it was chopped, based on the different top panel material (it looks like MDF), and the rounded cabinet corners that meet said panel, which should be squared off near the top (mirroring the bottom). There's a good chance the single upper rotor originally came from that cabinet. If that's the case, it may have started its life as a 145, or a 45 and the two-speed motor stacks were added later.
I've got a couple of Leslies. These things are great! Make any music sound like AC/DC...
Or ELO
@@RHColeor Emmerson Lake and Palmer
That sounds really good. UA-cam has to be quadrophonic. 🤠
You are an technical and creative genius! Amazing skills 👍👍👍
Those things must be quite an experience!
I always get so envious watching your videos
got to say always been drawn to the simplicity of the leslie speakers and there crazy sound well done sam great video
Aw those speakers sound beautiful 😮
The controller telling you to 'F OFF S' 4 times is hillarious ;)
Super cool, reminds me of the bbc radiophonic workshop with Delia Derbyshire & David Vorhaus 🎵👍
Rotary speakers are super fun. I'm really thankful I built one for myself.
Bonkers! Love it!
Fantastic! It sounds wicked on my home setup and I can only imagine what it sounds like in person.
"... Where's all the sound comin' from?", inspires imaginings of optical art in that small space --- the type that requires a a first layer of paint in hues complementary to the speaker perhaps (allowed to cure) followed by duct tape applied in visually challenging pattern, followed by another layer of paint and then once dry, peel away the tape to reveal the pattern. Finally, combine that with the sound output. That is what I imagine.
Mirrors on the baffles and a laser
@@theelmonk Perhaps kinesthetic art, such as a panel with a matrix of metal discs each dangling from a finishing nail that respond to changes in vibration or air currents.
Jeebus. I have a pair 122s that already sound mind bending. About the only thing I poke about is the cutting of the baffles. Part of the sound effect comes from the reflections within those baffles. A mostly common practice to up the volume and visual is to place the boxes back-out and just remove the sound-space boards.
As a kid we had a Farfisa organ with a Leslie. I just loved the sound!
YEs to loving organ sounds in childhood that eventually virtually almost but not quite become part of our DNA, DNR, DMT the whole cosmical shebang or make up or actual pulse as beating bleeding hearts, illuminating our aura in every shade of the rainbow and beyonf
...
Sam, I hope to someday visit the UK and your museum, it's been great watching it all come together!
I'm convinced future mankind will be baffled that Cyberdyne Systems and Skynet derived from a really cool tech museum in the UK.
Always something interesting.
A subtle yet generous synesthetic op-art complement on those walls would be amazing. Of course, the real challenge is avoiding renderings that confuse or torment.
Colin Furze for the musically inclined 😂❤
spot on mwsh
ew no, that guy is bullshit drama clickbaity. This guy comes across like a regular guy that would be doing this if the internet existed or not, and he runs a museum. The colin furze guy knows what he's doing with fabrication somewhat, but its still mostly social media advertising reality tv garbage
Dig it
With a side portion of Tim Hunkin as well.
Furze could only dream of being this cool 😂😂😂.
I kid, I'm a huge fan of both. But music is much more my thing.
I have a 147 RV made in 1966 that I use in my music room to play Organ,Bass or guitar through. It's plenty loud enough . 4 being driven by a solid state per amp would be massively loud.
I like how relatively simple leslie speakers are but they sound so cool. I imagine the sound varies depending on how they sync up too, could be interesting to add a way to control that.
Pretty much every one of Sam's creations is intended to have multiple sources that DON'T have locked phase
Vangelis did a live concert in quadraphonic in 1979. Imagine being there!
I once did a live mix with a Lesley and 4 microphones. It was a small venue and we had a large PA, so I put 4 speakers in the corners of the venue and fed them with a powered line. People reported that they were experiencing "vertigo" when the Lesley Speaker spun up.
this is freaking crazy... congrats
Love the sound you're getting from those modded Quadra-Leslies - awesome work Sam! And you even cracked out your Casio CZ-101 at 12:30! 🎹 😎
Kinda sounds like Justice here and there. Nice!
That's super cool!
MAGICAL.. TELEPHONICS video AND Surround sound video! Haa in the telephonics room
Awesome Analogue Stuff! .👍
I had one 120 connected to a Hammond E112. Lovely combination.
The bigger cabinets are model 125, though they normally come with their own amp. I've worked on rebuilding them (recapping the amp etc), including the motors with their shaded pole motors and relays that engage an extra wheel for double speed. Its bigger brother is the 251, and there's a 'living room' version that looks nice called the 351 though it's just a cosmetic upgrade.
Thats just the equipment to do some "Dead or alive - You spin me round"-cover xD
Surely Dizzy would be a better choice?
The late great Graham Bond (Hammond organist and one of the most influential musicians ever to NOT be a household name) sometimes used four Leslie speakers during gigs, one at each corner of the stage. I'm sure he would have approved!
Nice project! I would love to see a 2 joystick controller to modulate the speed and 4 way pan!
Wauw, just love how you can fiddle around with those old vintage but very cool technologies. Wish I'd could've helped you but living in the Netherlands and a daily commute is a bit far
Sam, you're certifiably nuts! And infinitely entertaining! Keep it up chief!
love that nostalgic tape sound :)
Beautiful!
One friggin' awesome project there :)
there's something cozy about the particular way these do vibrato. i don't know what it is but it's different than the tremolo wheel or whatever on a synth
Think I remember from when I was a sound tech, that speaktaron cables work the same way as jacks, so you need to turn off the amps before connecting or unplugging them.
This is amazing!
I would like to suggest adding LEDs, you choose the colour, inside the speaker cabinets above the open vents and putting a strip of reflective tape along the bottom of the opening on the baffle. This will add a visual pulse to highlight the audio pulse.
Painting the rest of the baffle black will accentuate the visual effect, but could be skipped if you don’t want to stray too far from the traditional look of the devices.
Have a nice one
Tinkering with sound at its best.
Hear me out. Stepper motors - Angular control and sync modes. BPM matching. That would be insane. You could place 4 of them in 4 corners and phase each one from the next a specific amount of angle.
I'm gunna do the other ones with the stepper motors as mentioned. Probably not beat matching but who knows!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I remember hearing that Pink Floyd were played with quadraphonics at their shows. Too young to have experienced it
I once heard Herbie Hancock do it. It was .... okay, I guess.
I can just imagine Rick Wright going ham on a setup like this, On The Run in full Leslie surround sounds wild
@@unduloid I loved Herbie Hancocks debut on mtv
In 1977 I went to a lasarium show at the planetarium in Portland Oregon and it was in descreat quad .
As if finding all this stuff is not enough, I'm finding how you find space for it is profound.
I would love for you to do a quad or 5.1 recording with these, youtube does support 5.1 but the playback of it is a little annoying, gotta use the right browser or fire stick or whatever.
you are a mad genius.
Air raid siren with speakers. Love it
That makes me smile so hard! Thanks!
That's a lot of sockets. I hope Leslie can handle it.
Flipping awesome 👍
Awesome guys
Please use your gear with the sound mirrors at Denge Beach! That would be so nice to see!
Sick find! Please integrate phase control into those, I bet you could get some insane spacial effects playing around with it!
This actually makes me nauseous to think about. Getting the rotations to sync would be crazy. I know a backline guy that has a Leslie he covered in truck bed lining.
You mean Rino Coat. I know a friend that coated his whole truck with it in white . He never washed it and you would never know. It always looks clean. I always teased him asking if it made his trruck go faster and farther like a golf ball .lol
Dude if you come to the US to do a show, I'll drive a good distance to see it!
This is classic LMNC.
Quintessential, even.
great video!
Sam, you like, need to hook up stepper motors to all four speakers, plus an encoder, so you actually *know* their position.
Then, use a little clever maths and a central controller to adjust all of their speeds/positions simultaneously, so you basically wind up sitting in the middle of a massive ring modulator.
watch the vid i talk about it. but going to only do it to one. as dont wanna ruin all of em :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Yeah, i saw where you mentioned adding one. But you're a damned genius. I bet you could figure out how to retrofit 4x of them without destroying them. ;)
@@BenKDesigns you could! but i love how reliable and just minimal fuss the original function is. im leaving these ones as is. who knows maybe stere stepper motor ones. but these are staying as is :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Fair enough. I'll settle for that cover of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" by the Kinks. Tell me you haven't thought that'd be cool as hell. :P
ua-cam.com/video/fUo9TIkSicw/v-deo.html
Whoa. That first demo sounded like PWM!
i can hear nick batt running over as we speak!
I realize back in the day they didn't pay as much attention to electrical safety, but you still have to wonder WTF they were thinking with some things, "oh let's put the audio signal in the same cable as several pairs of mains voltage." What could go wrong! And use a connector with the pins in a circle, for good measure.
to be honest its quite a good connector as 2 pins at top are slightly larger but yet it is hourrendous at the same time, and if i was not making it permanent out of reach i would have put something better on. the metal contacts are not far from the actual top of the socket, even on the proper ones. not the safest method in the world no
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t ro-ta-ting!
Beautiful madness
love it nice one had to plug my head phones in even better :D
The reel to reel spread across the room was also done by Brian Eno.
Absolutely bonkers and I LOVE it
I think you're thinking about Frippertronics which was done by Robert Fripp of Fripp and Eno fame.
It is not possible to mike one Leslie for real, let alone four !!! The effect is 3D. Any reproduction is 2D ...Anyway: this video was super cool. I am a big fan !
11:32 Auuuutoooobhaaaaan!