[HAM] How do I get overdrive on an L-100 spinet?

[Peter Csere]

To get overdrive like Deep Purple on any Hammond, you need to get a Marshall
full-stack (that's a guitar amplifier) and overdrive it. It has to be tubes,
not valves. This is what Jon Lord used most of the time.

However, to overdrive it the way most people do, you have to hook up your
leslie and overdrive that. Other people are more expert on that than I am.

You can also do things to your preamp levels and stuff.
There are plenty of resources on the 'net about wiring leslies - I
personally wouldn't know anything about hooking a L-100 to a Leslie 110, but
plenty of other people on this mailling list certainly would.

Don't use your guitar overdrive pedals unless they're tube pedals (note: It
may say "tube" somewhere on it and be tube-esque, but you actually have to
be able to SEE a real tube in it.)
You may wonder why I say this? Well, much of the famed "Sound" comes from
the fact that everything is tube-amplified. The organ's amp has tubes, the
leslie has tubes, etc. Tubes give the sound certain harmonics that cannot be
duplicated by most guitar overdrive pedals. You would not want to use a
solid-state overdrive pedal to give your organ overdrive, because it simply
would not sound nearly as good as overdriving the leslie.

~Peter Csere

>How do I get overdrive like Deep Purple etc on an L-100 spinet?  FYI  - I
>have been using the internal speaker , although I do have a model 110
Leslie  but
>I have not connected it since I am unsure about dummy loads etc - also, I
do
>have several overdrive pedals for guitar....]
>
>Thanks
>Doug Out