I assumed DC, although clearly not AC, meant 120v. On Uncle Harvey's guide to Leslie Pin Outs he says that Pin 2 is the signal/DC ground. It sounds odd, but I got this suggestion from maybe misunderstanding Captain Foldback himself. > Ground is on pin 2 for the 6-pin plug, and on pin 3 for the > B+ is not required by the organ) the AC is on pins 2 and 4. > hookup, the AC belongs on pins 3 and 4, and it had damnwell > The AC had better jolly well fucking NOT have anything to ![]() > The AC for the leslie and the audio signal share a ground (pin 2) and I'm pretty sure that's where the problem lies. Hell, I have a guitar pedal with a tube in it. So I figured that tapping the signal would be less destructive and cheaper. Ideally I'd be modifying the Leslie amp to give me some tube based overdrive, but I don't want to mess with it because a) it's really old and b) it used to belong to my friend's late father. I have a Korg SV1 (poor man's XK-5?) that does the same thing, and I love it. I believe your XK-5 has a preamp tube in it specifically for distortion. I do agree that the Hammond sound is unique and wondrous, especially when that horn starts to spin, but I work mainly in guitar based rock music, where even the Hammond sound wants a bit of dirt. I guess I'm notĭifferent strokes I guess. > need any help from solid-state guitar junk. > of the finest-sounding instruments ever devised, and doesn't > to use craptastic guitar effects with it. > 59 years, and not once have I experienced any desire at all > I've been playing the Hammond B-3 (and now, the XK-5) for So, long story short, how do I rebalance the post guitar effects audio signal without electrocuting myself.Īnd thanks again for reading to the end. I also have a Hammond 835 transformer that someone gave me that I could incorporate on the output side to rebalance the signal, but I'm pretty sure I'd still have to tap that ground. ![]() Should I be sharing that ground with the audio signal at some stage (I'm obviously reluctant because of the 120v it's hanging out with)? The AC for the leslie and the audio signal share a ground (pin 2) and I'm pretty sure that's where the problem lies.Īs soon as the signal leaves my box, it's unbalanced (because guitar) and when it comes back in it needs to be balanced again. I still get signal in that scenario, but it's very quiet which I think is half of the regular signal flowing through the ground? ![]() When I add a distortion pedal to the chain (with a reamp box before it to bring the signal down to guitar levels) it also works fine, but when I turn the pedal off I get a heinous hum. If I bridge the in and the out 1/4" plugs with a patch cable (TS or TRS) everything works as it did without the box. I, like any sane individual, want to use guitar pedals with my organ, so I made a box that passes the AC, but intercepts the audio signal for 1/4" jacks. I have an M3, running a 21H, with a weird old custom out, not a standard leslie connector box, but it uses the 6pin cable, with pin 5 disconnected. I've googled this as much as I can, but lacking the basic concepts of audio electronics, it's hard to know which information is relevant to this custom project of mine.
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