Caravan sound

[Harry Bissell]

It was also common at that time to just overdrive the hell out of the
old tube Leslie speakers (like 147's) and let the tubes clip. Some were
hot rodded to enhance this effect.  If you pull all the stops out (so so
speak...lol)
you have plenty of signal to work with.

H^) harry

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/16/00 11:50:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, don at till.com
> writes:
>
> << Chords don't work through fuzzboxes because of intermodulation.  But a
>  good Canterbury keyboard player will use the "intermodulation chiffs"
>  from multiple notes as an expressive tool.  Listen closely for that;
>  it's pretty neat. >>
>
> Yes, it certainly is!  You can also hear a similar distorted organ solo in
> Traffic's "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", from their album of the same name.
>  The organ is played by Stevie Winwood.  It's especially cool when he kind of
> slurs his various monophonic solo notes into that intermodulated grunge, and
> then later just starts playing full chords, just for the beautiful noise of
> it.
>
> Oh yeah, "Ummagumma"-era Pink Floyd seemed to like that kind of organ sound
> quite a bit, too.
>
> Don is right about the type of organ or type of fuzzbox:  It doesn't much
> matter what types you use.  However, if you have a drawbar-type organ, it's a
> lot of fun to change the drawbar settings while you're playing through a
> fuzzbox.  The effect can sometimes sound kind of like a guitar breaking into
> harmonic feedback, or even harmonic feedback breaking into a guitar...
>
> Michael Bacich