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

[Jackson, Ian]

As a guitarist you will be aware that 'that overdriven sound' is a
pretty vague description...

The Leslie distortion, as exemplified by Santana (first 3 albums), Deep
Purple (early and late, but NOT Smoke/Highway Star etc), Steppenwolf,
Uriah Heep etc requires a hot organ signal going into a tube-amplified
Leslie, everything on 10 (or above), and (optionally) various degraded
or out-of-spec components in the signal path to add to the general
mayhem.

The Marshall distortion (eg Purple's Machine Head album, and the related
'Making Of...' DVD) simply requires a lineout from your L. This will be
plenty hot enough (and then some) to make any tube geetar amp scream...

Unfortunately, with the latter option, you'll have no Leslie swirl, and
only the L's cheesy vibrato channel to provide any animation.

I may be wrong (???), but I think Keith Emerson's ELP debut at the Isle
of Wight Festival (you were minus 16 at the time!) used this second
setup - and was actually able to get feedback...

--UK Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: hammond-bounces at zeni.net [mailto:hammond-bounces at zeni.net] On
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Sent: 11 August 2006 13:10
To: hammond at zeni.net
Subject: Re: [HAM] How do I get overdrive on an L-100 spinet?


excuse my ignorance as I am  a 20 year guitarist and a 2 month
Hammondist!
 
I am just looking for that overdriven sound.....  since I have an  L-101

spinet and 2 non-pre-amped leslie speakers, is it fair to assume that I
will be 
unable to get an overdrive from the Leslie[s] and will be left with the

Marshall option?
 
In a message dated 8/11/2006 2:47:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
docb3 at cox.net writes:

Are you  trying to get the Jon Lord/Marshall sound or the hard distorted

Leslie?
V.S...
 


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