What's your favorite leslie simulator pedal?

[billkahler]

Anybody ever build the one at GGG?

[billkahler]

Anybody? Bump.

[gez]

IIR there are plenty of build reports in the archives (try a search).

[MartyMart]

I have not "DIY'd" one yet , a good chorus/flanger can do a nice fast leslie, best commercial
one is the Line 6 Roto machine .... lovely sound and has ramp up/down and different cab sims
too.

MM.

[Brett Sinclair]

... best commercial
one is the Line 6 Roto machine .... lovely sound and has ramp up/down and different cab sims
too.

+1

love that sound...

[RaceDriver205]

Never heard a real leslie sim, but the Neovibe works real good.

[rebickguitars]

The RM Voodoo Vibe cannot be touched!  I've had mine since 1995 (Roger told me it was the twelfth one in the States when I ordered it from him!), and I have converted many of my friends and customers as well as one studio owner, all of his staff and several of his clients, to the Roger Mayer camp.  He had a Fulltone Deja 2 that he liked, but didn't feel really nailed the 'Machine Gun' sound (sorry Mike! I admire you greatly, I'm just reporting subjective opinion here and Fulltone wasn't on the popular radar when I got my Vibe!), but as soon as I plugged in the Voodoo Vibe he was sold.  I haven't heard the Voodoo Vibe Jr., but I'm sure it is fantastic as well. 

That being said, your best bet is to go to a good guitar shop and play as many side by side as possible.  The Voodoo Labs, Fulltone, Roger Mayer, and Dunlop Univibe are a good place to start to show you the variety of flavors out there, and the Line6 is pretty flexible, though I'm more of the "Do one thing and do it well" school of thought than "do many things ok."  It all comes down to personal preference, so let your ears make the decision.  Set them all for a similar sound, and then turn your back and let someone else turn them on and off while you play.

[Mark Hammer]

It would be a mistake to think there is a single "Leslie sound".  True, there are aspects of a rotating speaker sound that make it distinct from other sorts of modulation effects, but even when companies turn to digital modelling of Leslies, the product models they copy themselves have different sorts of tones.  The Roto-Machine incorporates models of 3 different types of Leslies, and those are just 3 selected from the range of cabinets that the Leslie company has produced over the years.  The Hughes and Kettner Rotosphere has some nice sounds as does the BOSS unit with that wacky psychedelic display in the middle.  It's a question of what your preferred kind of rotating speaker sound IS.

Having said that, a number of phase shifters and flangers and Univibes can get just the right amount of modulation depth and speed to do the "bubbly" fast setting of a Leslie reasonably well, even though they don't do the more throb-like slow speed all that convincingly.

[Doug_H]

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=40436.0
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/product/Line+6/ToneCore+Rotomachine/10/1 (search page for "DH")

[bwanasonic]

The RM Voodoo Vibe cannot be touched!  I've had mine since 1995 (Roger told me it was the twelfth one in the States when I ordered it from him!), and I have converted many of my friends and customers as well as one studio owner, all of his staff and several of his clients, to the Roger Mayer camp.  He had a Fulltone Deja 2 that he liked, but didn't feel really nailed the 'Machine Gun' sound

That's fine if your trying to get a uni-vibe sound, but the original post is about a Leslie sim Not DIY, but an inexpensive Leslie sim, that also includes a lot of other effects, is the Alesis Quadraverb GT. It's a single space rack unit that goes for about $100 on ebay. I'd give the Line 6 tonecore pedal a try.

Kerry M