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I thought it was "Rabbit" Bundrick, but Wikipedia reckons it was just the band on that album, so probably Andy Fraser or Paul Rodgers.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Apparently the engineer was Richard Digby-Smith, who is on Facebook, and may or may not welcome nerdy questions about stuff he did forty-five years ago.
There was an official Leslie preamp unit designed to get a guitar signal to power different models of Leslie speaker, but I'm not sure that was made until later, so somebody would have had to build something. Island Studios (now SARM West) might have had something on hand for everybody to use, or it might have been made for Kossoff specifically.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I wonder how did Jon Lord run his m100 Hammond thro the Marshall and thence to a leslie? Similar fashion? Wouldn't the input voltage swing be just too great for the Leslie? Bearing in mind everything was louder than everything else!
I think he used standard cabs on the Marshalls as well, so probably the same. Given the technology of the time, if there was anything special it would only need to be a simple two-resistor divider to bring the speaker level down to something that didn't fry the Leslie preamp. Hammond organ output voltage is quite high anyway, so even that might not be necessary.
Years ago I had a Leslie, and I simply disconnected the amp section entirely and fitted a jack so I could use it as a plain speaker cabinet, connected to the amp as normal, but it didn't sound like Kossoff.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Sometimes you need to listen to the stuff outside of the big hits to remind yourself how good Kossoff was - thanks for reminding me!!
I'm on the second play through of Free At Last and looking forward to going to the gym to listen again.
That's an extra fiver then, and all £15 well spent IMHO.
Pretty sure all the Free albums were recently been given the "remastered with extra shit you'll only listen to once" treatment, so you could buy each separately, get slightly better sound quality, a few curiosities, and probably still only spend 30-odd quid on their whole back catalogue.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.