wurly76

Also, I was right... there are KT88s... in the bottom picture!!! The top picture has 6550s. I knew I wasn't going crazy!

Thanks for your help Jim. The info about the tubes is interesting, I might try a pair of those 6550s and the 12AT7 for the pre... Yeah, the output on the clavia is certainly not adequate to drive the Leslie amp, but since I wrote last, I have used a couple of different preamps in front of the Leslie amp and that seemed to give it much more punch. I tried a Peavey T-Raxx bass preamp which I found in the garage the other day... but I think it needs a service as it was making some weird rumbling noises every so often... then I tried a little Joe Meek VC3 (which is a vocal mic preamp?) which gave me much more gain, and some compression before going into the cab. Those speakeasy pedals are a bit expensive, and it's tricky trying to find someone who has one I can borrow in the UK... but I will perservere finding one to try. I will look into the replacement horn though, as the cab does have a sort of 'buzzy' distorted sound around the midrange section. I tried listening to the top horn independantly to the bottom one by disconnecting the speaker wire, and it does sound like it may be blown. anyway, I have a few more photos for you which may shed some light on the wiring route and the mystery box!

Hi there, I'm new to the forum and after reading Jim's topic on tube choice for a Leslie, I thought I would ask a few questions about my recently acuired Leslie 122. My setup at the moment is a Clavia Nord Electro (Hammond 'clone') plugged into a Leslie 122 which has been modified to accept a 1/4 inch jack input (see photos). It sounds good, but I'm not sure that it's giving out it's full 40W when you turn it right up. I tried using a compressor unit that I had in the studio (Joe Meek VC3) as a pre-amp and this seems to help things, but I was wondering if anyone had any further thoughts or ideas? the amp has been re-valved, and I checked out the speakers today... the top one is a Jensen and the 15 is EMI C15L? so i guess these may not be the original ones? They are a bit distorted around a couple of frequency's (mid-range ish) but not being an expert I wouldn't know if that was down to the amp or the condition of the speakers... Also the amp only has one 12AU7 tube and in place of the other one, there is a connection to the Leslie Dividing Network... I guess this is a crossover? Can anyone explain why it only has the one 12AU7 valve? I thought the 122's had two? Also what is that bolt on metal box on the left hand side of the amp!!! thanks.