Hi Steve,
Good meeting you there too!
The B-3 belongs to Alfonso so it's been used for all the festivals. Anybody who used a B-3 used that one... it's in pretty good shape but the Leslie 147 is a little knackered. The bottom motor stack has no slow motor at all (been removed) and the speed switch is wired directly to the motors, not relay-controlled by phantom current over the organ cable like a stock Leslie. Robert Webb needed the Leslie to be far off-stage so as not to upset the monitor balance in the wedges, so we put it in a dressing room. Cesar (stage manager) extended the footswitch cable with Ethernet Cat5 cable! Lots of twisted wires and electrical tape, but somehow it all worked out as usual. Tom had the Leslie right next to him, a more typical arrangement.
Robert did use one of my M400's, along with a Clavinet D6 I had borrowed and brought down with me. We had the Clav in pieces an hour before the show! Robert's good with those, as he builds Harpsichords on occasion.
Hey, Clavinet people out there, what's with the volume difference between the non-wound and wound strings? The lower couple of octaves are distinctly louder. Are all the new string sets like that? Were the original strings like that?
- Gene
Gene Stopp wrote:
> Interesting how the adaptable brain can spot things, like a factial
> recognition or a movement in the brush... after three days of
> stage-monkeying, my eyes caught the following:
>
> ∗ crash cymbals not moving during cymbal crashes
>
> ∗ no cables on the stage
>
> ∗ no cables in the guitars (there was even a closeup of the empty 1/4"
> jack on the stratocaster!)
>
> and...
>
> ∗ no power cord in the mellotron
>
> - Gene
Hi Gene,
nice to finally meet you down at Baja Prog. You did a good job with
the 'tron and the other vintage gear used by England. It was great to
hear all of it put through its paces by a real analog keys stud! He's
a real down to earth guy too. I enjoyed talking to him on Saturday
afternoon.
Two questions regarding the B3 and Leslie being used by Tom Hughes of
Nektar. Was it the same one being used by Robert Webb? And was it also
yours?
--
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
Systems Theory internet music project links:
soundclick <www.soundclick.com/systemstheory>
garageband <http://www.garageband.com/artist/systemstheory>
"Soundtracks For Imaginary Movies" CD released Dec 2004
"Codetalkers" CD coming very soon in 2006
NP: nothing