I have 2 questions about the Leslie speaker. The first one deals with speed. I'm gonna say the leslie at my church is a 122 since it has choral/tremolo. When chorale is turned on (slow) the speaker rotates slowly. Several years back for some reason the horn would stop completely but the bottom rotars would continue to spin slowly when chorale was on. The reason I say "for some reason" is because we've never had any organ experts at our church who have an experienced ear for an organ sound (for the most part anyway, some of its just common sense). I was wondering what could be done with our speaker that would make the horn stop rotating completely but keep the bottom rotars on when using chorale and obviously everything speed up when tremolo was used. What kind of process would I have to go thru and how easy can it be accompllished?
My second question deals with speaker location. When our sanctuary was first built in 1989, we started out with 2 organ speakers, one on each side of the sanctuary (both were off the platform) after about a year or so, I believe, they removed one organ speaker and moved the other one on the platform next to the organ (on the left side of the organ). I'm guessing that happened when we purchased our first digital piano. The leslie remained in that location until about 5 years ago when we expanded our platform and rearranged instruments to make room for praise singers. The leslie was moved directly behind the organ and has remained there ever since. I am wondering, is this the best located a leslie speaker could be? What is the recommended spot for a leslie speaker? I've noticed on SEVERAL occasions when I've played the organ, I could turn the volume up all the way and barely be able to hear it over the praise singers, drums (which are next to the organ) and piano but apparently when I have done that, the piano player can't hear themself play because the organ drowns the piano out.