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

[DougJ1986 at aol.com]

Like many others here, I play several instruments and qualify as a gear  slut 
-   I happen to have a 1974 Marshall Head and 4 -12 cabinet so I  am good in 
that department I guess.... Can someone provide some guidance on how  to plug 
into the marshall?
 
My gut would say: simply take the two wires that run from the hammond to  the 
internal speaker and add a 1/4" jack to the other end and insert into the  
Marshall, however, I hear that isn't good or isn't the best way because one  
should add a capacitor or a dummy load [whatever that actually mean!  lol]   
 
All help is greatly appreciated!  Highway Star awaits....
 
 
Doug
 
 
In a message dated 8/10/2006 2:01:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
firenexx at gmail.com writes:

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
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