Jimi Hendrix's Most Overlooked Effect No One Talks About

[@MikelBluni]

Wow⁉️ I must have nailed it pretty well again - KZbin gave me another copyright claim 😂☮️🎸 Next time I will have to adapt the licks again ✌️🎸

[@davidhornbeckmusic7487]

Hmmm, Univibe or Leslie? I love both, now I think I want to run a Univibe INTO a Leslie lol. 😵‍💫

[@MikelBluni]

@ That would be a super swirly sound…cool idea ✌️🎸☮️

[@Gimi.Endrics]

This is exactly the video I needed I use the vibrato on my Univibe pedal to play some Jimi Hendrix songs but the Rotary Speaker Simulation pedal definitely makes a big difference

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks my friend. Exactly, what I always did…using the vibrato mode…but it’s quite impossible to get the same feel. I have to admit…I need a real decent Rotary pedal now 😃 ✌️🎸

[@Gimi.Endrics]

​@@MikelBluni👍🏻👍🏻🎸🎸

[@alguitarchristie]

The Lex and the Vent are the only two that do the slow speed right! And also DSL, is good. I think Leslie actually has a range of pedals now.

[@markhilbert6573]

Thanks for this info its very useful to me. Brilliant work as usual.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot for your feedback ✌️🎸

[@archstanton3763]

Fantastic video and fantastic playing ! Always loved Jimi playing through a Leslie rotating speaker, then again I love everything he did. Stevie Ray Vaughan used a Leslie to great effort also.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. The Rotary sounds gorgeous in Jimi’s songs. Would have loved to hear more SRV songs with a Leslie. I think he ditched it when Reese joined the band ✌️🎸

[@craigshewchuk9018]

I have a 1947 Leslie morphus 25 that is modded with a 15 and horn So its a smaller cabinet but has all the major points of the large ones everyone wants but is actually manageable Also have a mini Leslie made from an old organ that had it inside The roto vibe and moen shakey jimi are definitely way different than an actual leslie but the rotovibe and uni have a good place and time for those sounds but they are different for certain

[@MikelBluni]

Wow that sounds cool. I gotta watch out for a smaller Leslie cabinet, too 👍 The Rotovibe is cool, but there are really better alternatives out there if you look for a Rotary in a pedal..I’ve mentioned a few in the video ✌️🎸

[@craigshewchuk9018]

@MikelBluni I found the Leslie at guitar center for $300 they wanted it out of there cuz they didn't know what it was and taking up retail room. The neo vent is a good pedal but for the price I will stick with rotovibe. Shakey Jimi cheap pedal but has the real photon light modules to make effect like real univibe, I taped the lights for better intensity (old school mod)

[@ManlaySound]

He also played a fantastic Leslie speaker rythm guitar on Tax Free

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks. Yes indeed there’s a great version of the „Rotary“ Tax Free on War Heroes and or South Saturn Delta ✌️🎸

[@aminahmed2220]

Awesome video Mikel have a great day also today is my older brother birthday and also happy birthday ❤

[@aipsong]

Excellent!!!Thanks!!!

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot ✌️🎸

[@RIPROCK54]

The Fender, The Pinwheel pedal has a ramp feature that changes the speed. Sounds good, check it out.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks, I will try to check it out. The ramp function sounds intriguing. I think the Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere had that, too. ✌️🎸

[@RIPROCK54]

@@MikelBluni Also features a slow/fast (brake) foot switch and emulates 3 different fender rotary speaker products.

[@Inspector-71]

I read somewhere that Jimi used a miniature version of a Leslie built by a studio engineer for the song Little Wing, have you heard of this? Anyways, good stuff as usual!

[@MikelBluni]

Interesting! I haven’t heard about that. I’ve found some pictures and think I could locate an original sized Rotary cabinet ✌️🎸

[@albertjabberin739]

Regardless of what the univibe actually sounds like, it just wins and sounds better than almost anything. Great video, great playing.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. I love the Uni-Vibe. Getting to play with the rotary was a welcomed new taste that I’ll definitely keep for some songs ✌️🎸

[@waynegram8907]

MIKEL, YOu should try a bunch of different types of buffers pedals. One of the most overlooked effect is Roger Mayers BUFFERS circuits because he designed the buffers to add more Harmonics. They experimented with various buffer circuits with the fuzz face and wah. Roger Mayer would disconnect Hendrix strat TONE controls to have direct output so it changes the LOAD to the fuzz face or wah sweep. Hendrix Voodoo Chile with Steve Winwood on organ on electric ladyland is turning down the strats volume pot to 8 setting and the fuzz face vol and fuzz set at two 0' clock, it gets a nice warm overdrive pedal it doesn't sound like a fuzz but more like a tube screamer overdrive. When you get it down make a video lesson about it

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for your inspiring input. Would you say bypassing the tone controls is worth a try? Actually, I had an idea for a buffer tryout video, but wasn’t sure if it could be of any interest ✌️🎸

[@waynegram8907]

@@MikelBluni Yes get a bunch of different buffers to make a video lesson on how they work with the fuzz face and Wah SWEEP. Fender makes a Buffer that has a Presence control, Big Monk Electronics Buffer has a high impedance output. You have to find buffers that have a high impedance input and HIGH ( NOT LOW ) impedance OUTPUT . Roger Mayer had a bunch of different buffer circuits in the fuzz faces and wah pedals to create different FOOTPRINTS.

[@waynegram8907]

@@MikelBluni Yes the Direct Through Solo Switch it was on early Telecaster called the "take off" for soloing. I think Hendrix disconnected the Tone pots in his strat for his clean tones using the SoundCity Amplifier to use the Midrange tone circuit of the Soundcity amplifier. You will have to find out which Hendrix sounds he used the Soundcity amplifier for his clean tones, like the wind cries mary and hey joe, castles made out of sand. The "take off mod" outputs a little more pickup level to DRIVE but also has more high end so you get those sparkling Cleans for those Hendrix Clean tones. The Marshall amplifiers are to DARK while Hendrix used the SoundCity for his Clean tones.

[@Jamman610]

One of my favorite albums from Jimi. Came in from the storm. Rotary.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for your comment. The stuff he came up with prior to his death are incredible. The shift he underwent with Billy on bass - still leaves me speechless. The rotary on Angel and Drifting…he knew exactly why he wanted that effect on there ✌️🎸

[@_nstone5317]

Univibe and Rotary are both supercool effects. For Univibe the Sabbadius Tiny Vibe I liked most (after seeing Randy Hansen live playing it helped 🎸🤘) for Rotary I searched a while and reaaaallly like the Neo Micro Vent 16 which is more Fender Vibratone Emulation than Leslie 122. But there is a Neo Micro Vent 122 too. Also they have got a bigger one in Stereo but the Micro has the blend function which is essential for me.

[@paulp2033]

The rotary definitely sounds closer. The univibe seems to add some overtones which disturb the harmonic content. Probably more noticeable as there are no other instruments in the mix. Thanks for the great and informative video

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot for your estimate. I love both effects, but once having the mentioned songs in your head, it’s hard to go on playing them with a Uni-Vibe 😉✌️🎸

[@URTH-yb5xh]

Great demo Good on you for noticing

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks ✌️🎸

[@hoboroadie4623]

I have not ever played a Univibe, and I am awaiting the arrival of my first rotating speaker, a Vox Gyrotone, but I have used a couple of stereo Leslie emulators with pleasing results: the Dynacord CLS 222, and the DLS Effects RotoSim. I noticed a RotoSim on Dan Vickery's board. Of course the Dynacord is a big ol' rack unit, and both of those are no longer made and fairly uncommon. I hear good things about that Strymon all of the time.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for your comment. Interesting to hear of some more Leslie effects/pedals. Only yesterday I came across a DSL…it looked great. The more we talk about it the more options pop up. I wonder if with that ease of nowadays good ole Jimi wouldn’t have one on his board 🤩🎸✌️

[@johnpierson8398]

Do I prefer the Uni Vibe or the Roary Speaker? Both are super cool. The Univibe on BOG Machine Gun is incredible. Univbe is a bit easier to recreate. The Sabbadius uni-vibes are really great. It seems to me that the rotary speaker is harder to recreate. Many try, but most of them are not quite there. The Neo Instruments Ventilator 2 is the best rotary speaker emulation I have heard. No question for me though - it's a rotary speaker on Little Wing and Drifting. And to think I gave away a vintage Leslie 117 in the early 80'S :( Thanks for this revealing video.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for your great feedback. I’m with you, the recreation of a Rotary is a tough thing as there is the physical component in place. Have heard of the Neo Vent, still wanna try one out. So may sins I did in my youth…if I could get back half of the sales I’d be a rich man 😂✌️🎸💯

[@CorbCorbin]

The H9 has such a good one, I’ve seen several guitarists using them just for the Rotary. Josh Smith(not the JHS guy) has a H9 Rotary setup, that people really like. The big Neo and one of the little ones, with just the speed control, were pretty spot on, especially just gigging or for a recording. I like the Gilmour Doppler effect, the Dawner Prince Pulse can do. It does its own thing, that’s a bit different from the Leslie, but I was able to get Leslie sounds from it. The Digitech Ventura, actually has a pretty good Rotary option, and they aren’t very expensive. It’s a figital pedal too, and it has a Uni Vibe setting, that is a good modulation, but its own thing, when it come to Uni Vibe. It’s nice to hear in stereo.

[@stevehrrn9445]

Sorry, there was a Fender vibrotone, solid state. Maybe an Italian made version? Check out early Steve Miller band (including Jesse Ed Davis and Taj Mahal).

[@Michel-r6m]

It is a bit of an open back without rotation and a smaller closed back (more directional) spinning around, sort of kinda maybe 😅

[@MikelBluni]

Definitely stereo takes. One guitar signal went directly into the desk without amp, the other went into the rotary. Check the video where Eddie Kramer talks about Little Wing, it’s in there ✌️🎸

[@darrenc8776]

Hey Mikel, the intro to killing floor jimi plays in Sweden is one of his finest. Do you think you could break it down for us.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for asking. I’ll take that impulse for a possible lesson ✌️🎸

[@darrenc8776]

That would be absolutely awesome

[@Terry_Aki]

What type of reverb is best for Hendrix tone? Spring, plate, hall?

[@MikelBluni]

Plate ✌️🎸

[@MrMllx]

So the signal path is guitar to amp, delay, reverb , then Leslie?

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for asking. Guitar - Rotary pedal - Amp. Delay and Reverb come after that ✌️💯

[@gabmou528]

I myself I like the rotovibe , I have a dejavibe but I like the rotovibe better

[@MikelBluni]

I think the Rotovibe has easily become a classic and it’s on many boards ✌️🎸

[@jeffreylazzarinisr7419]

Great info as always. What pedal is in sound sample 2 please and settings?

[@MikelBluni]

It’s the same pedal only with the fast speed. Please watch the “Settings” chapter everything is in there ✌️🎸

[@Shadytube2024]

After all the Jimi vids will you do same for Stevie?

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for asking ✌️🎸 I’ve thought about it, but it depends on acquiring or borrowing the right equipment. I’ll probably move on with Jimi lessons and maybe another format.

[@leewalton6882]

My favorite is still H&K Tube Rotosphere MKI has the non-latching breaker like original Leslie preamps so the speed is continuously variable Harder to find but I find it hard to give up that function If I lost mine and couldn’t replace it I’d be fine w MKII or possibly some newer sim but none sound as authentic to me as Rotosphere The others are too clean and perfect somehow This sounds real fwiw And yes there is a lot of Leslie (real as opposed to univibe) on Jimi’s records. Both are obviously beautiful but quite different from each other.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for mentioning the Rotosphere. Such a legendary pedal ✌️🎸

[@johnpierson8398]

@@MikelBluni Yes, the HK Rotosphere is definitely one of the very best rotary speaker emulation pedals ever made! It was designed by the great Thomas Blug.

[@stevehrrn9445]

I think Gibson made a small rotary speaker? Details lost in the dim and distant past.

[@MikelBluni]

Yes, I’ve heard that, too. Fender made one, too but I guess you already mentioned that in another comment ✌️☮️🎸👌

[@gibsoneb3]

Acoustic Black Widow guitar...left handed no less...

[@danielktdoranie]

Mate, drop the cringe hat and vest : makes you look like a PDF file

[@MikelBluni]

Like a PDF? Okay, whatever you mean by that✌️🎸

[@garethde-witt6433]

He wasn’t the first and won’t be the last, not a fan of Hendrix I consider him way too overrated. He used fx to cover his messy playing, he was a great showman but a gawdawful guitarist and songwriter.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for sharing your opinion ✌️🎸

[@BullyMaguire4ever]

Dumbass