Chris Buck | 1 decade ago

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A quick run through of just a few of the authentic Leslie sounds available on the Neo Instruments MiniVENT.

The MiniVENT is the smaller, but no-less-capable little brother of the renowned Ventilator, which has been used by the likes of John Mayer and Chuck Leavell. An incredibly versatile little pedal, the MiniVENT comes with two available presets and a nifty brake feature, which allows you to slow the 'speaker' to a complete stop, whilst still using the pedal's pre-amp.

For this recording, I was using Preset A for a mellower sound, rather than Preset B, which is a closer distance setting with speaker simulation turned on which gives a more aggressive, SRV type-tone. There are also 5 adjustable drive intensities on both presets, but to be honest, it sounded so great straight out of the box, I didn't really feel the need to mess around with it too much. They're there if you want them though!

All in all, an incredible little pedal that is the most accurate 122 simulation I've played to date. Thank you to Guido at NI for hooking me up :-)

Other equipment used in this video:

Homemade Strat (can't recall what pups sorry!)
Blackstar S150 and Blackstar 2x12 Cab
Monster Cables
Catalinbread Echorec (Dancing in the Dark)
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 4
Shure SM57
Ibanez TS808 RI
MBox Mini
iMac
*MiniVENT was recorded in Mono.

Tracks in this video:

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Who Knows - Jimi Hendrix
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen (credit to Mike Hermans for the arrangement)

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Video shot/edited by by Chris Watkins @ Captured Films -
www.capturedfilms.co.uk

Camera equipment used:

Canon 60d
Canon 1100d
Sigma 30mm
Sigma 18-35mm