Very nice design ad well constructed . Good sound . Very well done , I like the two speaker ( cabinet ) config that can make the sound interesting because they can be set to not spin in sync and at different speed . That makes experimenting possible in a different way . Really Great , very well done .
Totally brilliant. A great piece of work. I used to mess around with a Selmer Leslie years ago and I was always captivated by the doppler shift sound. This took a lot of work, well done.
Bloody Brilliant! I love the use of drum shells to create the Leslie. Great the way it locks together and a side benefit it could all go in drum cases to travel! Great idea, sounds pretty good to me. Thanks for sharing the video (and idea!). Don
You have made my morning and monday a great day to start off with. I have a tone wheel myself that i need a cab for. Your idea of cab choice is really amazing and very cool. The tone from heaven!
The dog is here to help. Good dog. Great sound! And don't apologize for using the Korg. It is what it is and you can't always drag a Hammond around with you. Great vid!
I am very impressed, with both the cabinet and your very cool dog! I am harbouring a desire to build myself a rotating speaker for my bass. You have set the bar very high.
I had this same idea. I even have a bass drum, but my components won't fit. I ripped mine out of an old dead transistor Hammond, but it's quite a bit different from yours. You could call it a guitar Leslie I suppose, as it has the exact same setup as one of the guitar models. One of these days I hope to find the time and space to put it into a cabinet, but for now it's stuck back in the closet.
Brilliant!!!!! I would like to try this build! I'd totally kill for a parts list and a rough set of instructions. The electrical stuff gets more than a bit tricky too! Thanks for posting this, I gotta do this project.
I luv what you've done here, great thinking. A suggestion, I've made something similar, I used a Bulgin 90404 connector for the two power feeds to the top motor and the horn, 6 wires. That connector does the job in one hit.
Very Clever! I just bought a Leslie 3300, being delivered today so I'm obsessing on RUclips looking at Leslie's. Your design is very cool and the craftsmanship looks top notch. Would love to hear it in person. I use the CX3 also and love it. Pat on the back for a job well done!
wow- how innovative- a round Leslie....looks like a bass drum with all the stuff inside it- and your organ sounds incredible- as good as a real Hammond and much more portable-
Hi Ed, yes it's 3 bass drums, I got them from a friend who had some old (bad) kick drums in his garage. The Korg organ is really great, like you say it's very portable and sounds pretty good. It does have simulated leslie but it's not as good as a real leslie of course.
lol- it NEVER is- the real thing is far superior- like the difference between a 'love doll' and a real woman- 3 bass drums- that's awesome- recycle, re-purpose, re-use, save the planet!!! very good-!!!
Totally inspiring. I think I might be spending a decent wack of my time trying to build a decent leslie guitar setup after watching this. At the moment I get a sorta leslie effect by having an electric fan spinning in front of my amp.
Thanks for the vid- very inspiring! After watching, I started looking on CL for older organs people are getting rid of so I can get the leslie out of one, that will save me lots of time:)
Yes, Pretty clever and seems to sound real decent. Wonder how much the assembly weighs? I have a Leslie 130 and 825 and designed my own separate top rotor cab's for both. You can see the 130's top cab on my channel on the video with the Hammond M3.
@Sergio Dias: Thank you, I am glad you like it. It has to be 2 sections because part of the Leslie sound is that the two sections rotate, accelerate and brake at different speeds, and in different directions. It's a good idea to try to put everything in one speaker but I don't think it would sound as good as with 2 speakers.
Nice work. I have the same Korg CX3 what I did was use the Leslie Proline 330 but using a 22H Leslie tube amp. I also built my own power box to power the tube amp and also using and eq to get the highs of that keyboard down some. On your keyboard you will have to turn all simulation off so the keyboard is putting out nothing but pure sound and no effects. Also make sure your crossover is set at the right level I thing the real Hammond is cut at 700hz for highs and lows.
Great video! Awesome idea btw. That saves so much space in small stages and stuff.. and it fits nicely in almost every car.. And my dog is pretty much alike :D It's very curious all what I do :D
@Stankinator911 Conventional Leslies are not round anyway; you can use whatever shape cabinet you want. I just wanted to build a round one. The electrics are the same as a regular Leslie, in fact the transformer, relay and motors are out of a Leslie 822. I would very much recommend buying a broken down Leslie(s) and salvaging parts, I did this for about 6 months before I could start this project. You must split the signal with a crossover because the upper horn can't take the bass frequencies.
Hi, great vide, sounds great, I made one myself but I dont know what motors to use. and how to speed up the thing.Could you tell me what you used? Thanks.
Brilliant piece of work! Very clear and informative video, and a wonderfully constructed device. Not sure the video camera mic does the sound justice, and i would love to hear a good stereo recording of it, but I'm sure Mr Donald Leslie himself would have been impressed!
@Multikeybored Hi, it's not too heavy in its individual components; the heaviest bit is the bottom drum which contains the transformer, this weighs about the same as a medium sized dog. Certainly light enough to carry on my own, which was the whole point of the project :)
sounds great, can I ask what kind and where you got the pulley tensioner for the horn? I am adding a horn to a leslie 125 and it's the only part i'm missing!
Nice! Are you willing to share more details about how it was made? I recently got an old organ which needs a new speaker and I think this would be a great addition to it.
Neat! I never thought to build a round Leslie. I build minature Leslies, same components as a 147, just crammed. So who do you think will build a 3dim Leslie 1st?
@Tarenchard - thank you, I'm glad you like it. I think the Leslie mechanics inside organs don't have the top horn, just the bottom drum but I'm not 100% sure if that's the case in every organ. But that is a good way to start :)
Hello John, thank you very much for your kind comments. The Leslie parts (motors, xover, top horn) are mostly from an 822 which somebody took apart for spares locally. I did the woodwork all myself but the only drawing I have is for the lower rotor which I made out of plywood, you are welcome to have it if you send me your email address. The rest of the woodwork I just made up as I went along. I wanted to make proper louvres but the wood of the drums is not thick enough so I just cut slots.
@Reslosound thanks for the kind compliment. I hadn't heard of the Maestro Rover before but I looked it up and it looks pretty amazing! Ah well, I thought I had the only round Leslie in the world...
wonderful job / i want one / a hammond-leslie sound without spending 3000. to 5000. dollars. really sounds good i'm impressed !!!!! james, wilmington north carolina U.S.A.
I'm not building minature Leslies with minature components, but cramming the standard 147 components in a smallest space. Biggest limiting factor are motors. I want to identify smaller motors & electronics that can perform the 2 speeds, (I'm a BSEE) Then the horizontal height can shrink more. A 15" not required if you're playing manuals and no pedals. Still, I never thought to build a round Leslie. That requires more carpentary skills than I have the patience for these days.
@alphabeta1932 Thanks very much for the compliment, but really I just made it up as I went along depending on what bits & pieces I could get hold of. There is nothing unusual or unique about it except the shape, and in any case the Leslie design is very well documented (and patented!). I could draw some plans but it would assume someone would be able to get hold of the same size bass drum shells etc which is easier said than done.
@dmorris4873 Well is there something I can substitute for bass drums? I don't know if I can get any of those easily. I'm also curious as to how the innards go together. Certainly I know it's not too complicated but if you could send me or upload a video with some of the details of the electric construction that would help. Making the rotating ramp would also be tricky without a design aid. And is it necessary to split the input signal to bass and treble or can I just use one 1/4 inch connector?
@zeppo20 Hello Zeppo, I used some motors out of an old Leslie 822. There's always motors on eBay. A Leslie motor stack is actually two motors, one fast, one slow, and they both turn the same spindle. Each has its own pair of power connectors so wire them both to a 12V relay switch. The relay switch will send power to either motor so you can switch between slow and fast, right?
@DynaflowDonnie Thank you Don, I do carry it about in bass drum cases (I haven't given in to the tempation to roll them down the garden path yet though)
@ishmaelamon there should be 4 wires heading into the motor stack; one pair for the fast motor, one pair for the slow motor. Figure out which wires are which and put in a double pole switch.
Thank you very much Mr Salmon. You really should try it, it's a lot of fun and an interesting project to try. I don't have any instructions or parts list because I made it up as I went along but please feel free to ask me any questions and I will try to help you. Regards, David
@agbengip Hi, glad you like it. The motors came from a Leslie 822 originally. I had to 'flip' one of them though because I am using the lower motor upside down, which meant that the top & bottom were spinning the same direction, which is a big no-no in Leslie land
I used a 20" for the top and 2 x 22" for the bottom. They are not cheap to buy new but the guy who runs the local drum shop here had them in his garage. I think, they may have been awful bass drums but perfect for cutting up and turning into a speaker :)
Amazing!!! Sounds Great and looks beautiful. Also looks very portable! Did you paint it with a hand of lacquer or waxed it? Damn! You're such a skilled guy! PS: your dog is checking the construction to finally give his/her seal of approval ... :)
you know, I still didn't paint it after all these years. I kind of like the unfinished wood, it reminds me of the work I did and I can still see all my pencil marks :)
I think that you would improve the sound if the horn would be in closed enclosure with a top wood cover. The traditional Leslie sound has a lot to do with the cabinet and sound reflection. Just my opinion.
The only home made Leslie I have seen that was worth the effort. Brilliant!!!!
I love how the dog is convinced it's him you're explaining it all to.
😁
Congratulations! You are a real professional. The electronic organ companies would hire you in a heartbeat.
Very nice design ad well constructed .
Good sound .
Very well done , I like the two speaker ( cabinet ) config that can make the sound interesting
because they can be set to not spin in sync and at different speed .
That makes experimenting possible in a different way .
Really Great , very well done .
Totally brilliant. A great piece of work. I used to mess around with a Selmer Leslie years ago and I was always captivated by the doppler shift sound. This took a lot of work, well done.
Great solution to the huge box problem you get with a Leslie. Sounds very beautiful with the Korg also. Cheers!
thank you man. Still quite a lot to carry but at least it's in 3 cases which I can manage on my own
I've always loved the sound of a leslie. Putting it into a circular enclosure is such a great idea!
Bloody Brilliant! I love the use of drum shells to create the Leslie. Great the way it locks together and a side benefit it could all go in drum cases to travel! Great idea, sounds pretty good to me. Thanks for sharing the video (and idea!).
Don
I never thought of a round Leslie until now! This is brilliant!
+Walter Tomaszewski Thank you Walter I am glad you like it. It makes perfect sense that it should be round, don't you think?
You have made my morning and monday a great day to start off with. I have a tone wheel myself that i need a cab for. Your idea of cab choice is really amazing and very cool. The tone from heaven!
The dog is here to help. Good dog.
Great sound! And don't apologize for using the Korg. It is what it is and you can't always drag a Hammond around with you.
Great vid!
I am very impressed, with both the cabinet and your very cool dog! I am harbouring a desire to build myself a rotating speaker for my bass. You have set the bar very high.
I had this same idea. I even have a bass drum, but my components won't fit. I ripped mine out of an old dead transistor Hammond, but it's quite a bit different from yours. You could call it a guitar Leslie I suppose, as it has the exact same setup as one of the guitar models. One of these days I hope to find the time and space to put it into a cabinet, but for now it's stuck back in the closet.
Brilliant!!!!! I would like to try this build! I'd totally kill for a parts list and a rough set of instructions. The electrical stuff gets more than a bit tricky too! Thanks for posting this, I gotta do this project.
I luv what you've done here, great thinking. A suggestion, I've made something similar, I used a Bulgin 90404 connector for the two power feeds to the top motor and the horn, 6 wires. That connector does the job in one hit.
Very nice! Very well thought out crafted, too!
OUTSTANDING! Ingenious work, and GREAT sound. Thanks so much for posting.
Very Clever! I just bought a Leslie 3300, being delivered today so I'm obsessing on RUclips looking at Leslie's. Your design is very cool and the craftsmanship looks top notch. Would love to hear it in person. I use the CX3 also and love it. Pat on the back for a job well done!
Awesome. You inspired me to build one now. I might try to build one into an old Marshall cabinet. Yours sounds excellent. Very jealous.
great! please let me know how you get on.
wow- how innovative- a round Leslie....looks like a bass drum with all the stuff inside it- and your organ sounds incredible-
as good as a real Hammond and much more portable-
Hi Ed, yes it's 3 bass drums, I got them from a friend who had some old (bad) kick drums in his garage. The Korg organ is really great, like you say it's very portable and sounds pretty good. It does have simulated leslie but it's not as good as a real leslie of course.
lol- it NEVER is- the real thing is far superior- like the difference between a 'love doll' and a real woman-
3 bass drums- that's awesome- recycle, re-purpose, re-use, save the planet!!! very good-!!!
Superb design and construction!
Brilliant construction!
Fantastic work! Looks as good as it sounds. Reminiscent of the Maestro Rover which was circular but only had the treble horns.
Totally inspiring. I think I might be spending a decent wack of my time trying to build a decent leslie guitar setup after watching this. At the moment I get a sorta leslie effect by having an electric fan spinning in front of my amp.
Looks and Sounds great! Congratulations from chilean Patagonia!
Very nice design, compact and works well.
I'm with your dog bro, you're a GENIUS! Love it, great work
Thank you James, I am glad you like it. I stopped by at Wilmington one time on an Amtrak trip, it's a really nice place.
Thanks for the vid- very inspiring! After watching, I started looking on CL for older organs people are getting rid of so I can get the leslie out of one, that will save me lots of time:)
Sounds like an awesome rig. I use 800Hz for my crossover frequency, I think I read somewhere that they set real Leslies at that frequency.
Thanks
Dave
Yes, Pretty clever and seems to sound real decent. Wonder how much the assembly weighs? I have a Leslie 130 and 825 and designed my own separate top rotor cab's for both. You can see the 130's top cab on my channel on the video with the Hammond M3.
Such a slick design! You're a genius Dave! Expect a call from NASA!
That is awesome. Great work on the speaker and nice video!
Dude that's bad ass! I love making my own instruments. This is right up my alley!
Well done - just awesome!! Sounds great!!! Put some more sound demos up! Congrats!!
@Sergio Dias: Thank you, I am glad you like it. It has to be 2 sections because part of the Leslie sound is that the two sections rotate, accelerate and brake at different speeds, and in different directions. It's a good idea to try to put everything in one speaker but I don't think it would sound as good as with 2 speakers.
Nice work. I have the same Korg CX3 what I did was use the Leslie Proline 330 but using a 22H Leslie tube amp. I also built my own power box to power the tube amp and also using and eq to get the highs of that keyboard down some. On your keyboard you will have to turn all simulation off so the keyboard is putting out nothing but pure sound and no effects. Also make sure your crossover is set at the right level I thing the real Hammond is cut at 700hz for highs and lows.
Great idea! Sounds great as well!
nice job David and a great sound.
Great video! Awesome idea btw. That saves so much space in small stages and stuff.. and it fits nicely in almost every car.. And my dog is pretty much alike :D It's very curious all what I do :D
Good work! BTW, one manufacturer of rotary organ speakers, "SpeakEasy" was reputed to use 700 as a crossover point.
wow!! I was sitting here the whole time exactly like your dog! :-)
@Stankinator911 Conventional Leslies are not round anyway; you can use whatever shape cabinet you want. I just wanted to build a round one. The electrics are the same as a regular Leslie, in fact the transformer, relay and motors are out of a Leslie 822. I would very much recommend buying a broken down Leslie(s) and salvaging parts, I did this for about 6 months before I could start this project. You must split the signal with a crossover because the upper horn can't take the bass frequencies.
Hi, great vide, sounds great, I made one myself but I dont know what motors to use. and how to speed up the thing.Could you tell me what you used? Thanks.
Brilliant piece of work! Very clear and informative video, and a wonderfully constructed device. Not sure the video camera mic does the sound justice, and i would love to hear a good stereo recording of it, but I'm sure Mr Donald Leslie himself would have been impressed!
Very nice build. Cheers!
Thanks very much! happy to say, it's still working well :)
@Multikeybored Hi, it's not too heavy in its individual components; the heaviest bit is the bottom drum which contains the transformer, this weighs about the same as a medium sized dog. Certainly light enough to carry on my own, which was the whole point of the project :)
Brilliant design.
Really cool! And it sounds awesome!
this is brilliant buddy! congratulations!
sounds great, can I ask what kind and where you got the pulley tensioner for the horn?
I am adding a horn to a leslie 125 and it's the only part i'm missing!
Thats awesome!! After this lesson can the dog put it all together. Seriously though. This thing is really cool.
Great design! I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love how it sounds! kudos, man!
Great stuff, well done sir!
Man, really sounds great. Nice job.
Very cool project!
Nice! Are you willing to share more details about how it was made? I recently got an old organ which needs a new speaker and I think this would be a great addition to it.
@William Akroyd: the tensioner is called an idler wheel, there is one on eBay right now. The horn is out of an 825. I hope that helps,
Dave
That sounds awesome!
Hi Johnny, thanks I'm glad you like it and yes it was good fun to build. I live near Chichester in West Sussex.
Regards,
Dave
you... made this? that's briliant
Neat! I never thought to build a round Leslie. I build minature Leslies, same components as a 147, just crammed.
So who do you think will build a 3dim Leslie 1st?
dude...congrats and thats amazing!!!!!!
@Tarenchard - thank you, I'm glad you like it. I think the Leslie mechanics inside organs don't have the top horn, just the bottom drum but I'm not 100% sure if that's the case in every organ. But that is a good way to start :)
Exellent work!
can you tell me what is required to build this fella and how to do it? you've just inspired me!
your dog seems very interested
Hello John, thank you very much for your kind comments. The Leslie parts (motors, xover, top horn) are mostly from an 822 which somebody took apart for spares locally. I did the woodwork all myself but the only drawing I have is for the lower rotor which I made out of plywood, you are welcome to have it if you send me your email address. The rest of the woodwork I just made up as I went along. I wanted to make proper louvres but the wood of the drums is not thick enough so I just cut slots.
Wow, like a boss! You must take your canine helper to all your gigs.
Haha I wish I could... he has very sensitive hearing so I can't unfortunately
Great video! loved your curious dog too :)
@Reslosound thanks for the kind compliment. I hadn't heard of the Maestro Rover before but I looked it up and it looks pretty amazing! Ah well, I thought I had the only round Leslie in the world...
wonderful job / i want one / a hammond-leslie sound without spending 3000. to 5000. dollars. really sounds good i'm impressed !!!!! james, wilmington north carolina U.S.A.
I'm not building minature Leslies with minature components, but cramming the standard 147 components in a smallest space.
Biggest limiting factor are motors. I want to identify smaller motors & electronics that can perform the 2 speeds, (I'm a BSEE) Then the horizontal height can shrink more. A 15" not required if you're playing manuals and no pedals. Still, I never thought to build a round Leslie. That requires more carpentary skills than I have the patience for these days.
@alphabeta1932 Thanks very much for the compliment, but really I just made it up as I went along depending on what bits & pieces I could get hold of. There is nothing unusual or unique about it except the shape, and in any case the Leslie design is very well documented (and patented!). I could draw some plans but it would assume someone would be able to get hold of the same size bass drum shells etc which is easier said than done.
@exmilgo Thanks for the kind remarks. I've always wondered what those 3300s are really like, maybe you can let me know.
That is beautiful man!
Nice work
Nice work!
@multilinkacs: it really was a lot of work but I enjoyed all of it and I learned a lot from it. Thank you for the compliment, Dave
@dmorris4873 Well is there something I can substitute for bass drums? I don't know if I can get any of those easily. I'm also curious as to how the innards go together. Certainly I know it's not too complicated but if you could send me or upload a video with some of the details of the electric construction that would help. Making the rotating ramp would also be tricky without a design aid. And is it necessary to split the input signal to bass and treble or can I just use one 1/4 inch connector?
@zeppo20 Hello Zeppo, I used some motors out of an old Leslie 822. There's always motors on eBay. A Leslie motor stack is actually two motors, one fast, one slow, and they both turn the same spindle. Each has its own pair of power connectors so wire them both to a 12V relay switch. The relay switch will send power to either motor so you can switch between slow and fast, right?
Beautiful design...thanks
@DynaflowDonnie Thank you Don, I do carry it about in bass drum cases (I haven't given in to the tempation to roll them down the garden path yet though)
@ishmaelamon there should be 4 wires heading into the motor stack; one pair for the fast motor, one pair for the slow motor. Figure out which wires are which and put in a double pole switch.
Saludos preguntandote. Si tienes. Algún. Plano o. Croquis de. La. Lesli. Y. Cuanto te. Costo. Haacerla
Your dog is like Nipper the RCA dog. ☺
Very nice work! :D I also adore your very loyal dog! So cute :D
Very cool man.... I dig it!!!!
Thank you very much Mr Salmon. You really should try it, it's a lot of fun and an interesting project to try. I don't have any instructions or parts list because I made it up as I went along but please feel free to ask me any questions and I will try to help you. Regards, David
@agbengip
Hi, glad you like it. The motors came from a Leslie 822 originally. I had to 'flip' one of them though because I am using the lower motor upside down, which meant that the top & bottom were spinning the same direction, which is a big no-no in Leslie land
I used a 20" for the top and 2 x 22" for the bottom. They are not cheap to buy new but the guy who runs the local drum shop here had them in his garage. I think, they may have been awful bass drums but perfect for cutting up and turning into a speaker :)
Amazing!!! Sounds Great and looks beautiful. Also looks very portable! Did you paint it with a hand of lacquer or waxed it? Damn! You're such a skilled guy! PS: your dog is checking the construction to finally give his/her seal of approval ... :)
you know, I still didn't paint it after all these years. I kind of like the unfinished wood, it reminds me of the work I did and I can still see all my pencil marks :)
this video made my day, wow this is better than traditional leslies in my opinion.... wow. can you make me one? I am willing to pay!
Thanks David, I don't have time to make another one, I'm sorry! But you should try to do it.
Very nice thank you for sharing
This is amazing. I'll pay you $50 for a copy the blue prints so I can make my own. Sounds great and MUCH less money than a 144 or 145. Great dog too.
I love it! This is truly brilliant! Keep on rockin! Are there any wiring diagrams around anywhere? I'd be interested in trying this out.
great idea,cheers!
I think that you would improve the sound if the horn would be in closed enclosure with a top wood cover. The traditional Leslie sound has a lot to do with the cabinet and sound reflection. Just my opinion.
Thanks Justin! Actually up close it's not that beautiful. But it works, and it sounds okay I think. I'm glad you like it. Regards, Dave