As a lifelong guitarist who also plays keys I gotta ask - If you're looking for that Badge sound for a tune or two, why on earth are you going to invest in this unit? Sorry, I don't get it. Yup, it is bright and harsh for guitar compared to a standard chorus, so stick to your chorus with the speed cranked if that floats your boat.

What this excellent Leslie sim does is provide the best currently available processing for organ, whether it's your Hammond portable or your synth.

One major caveat: it IS somewhat noisy, no way to deny that, and your engineer & producer will nix it in the studio... unless you mitigate the noise as best as possible before they get an earful. Live, NO problem - there really isn't enough hiss to be noticed. The first thing you want to always do is get away from the 12-and-12 setting for the pre- and post- volumes. Virtually ALL the hiss comes from the output (post) drive, so back that sucker to 10:00 and boost the drive to 2:00 (that's around 4 and 6 in knob language) and your organs will still be plenty clean. Why should you have to work with the hiss for this cost, why isn't there a built-in gate? Can't answer that, but the TONE is so wonderful that I don't care. If I took this in the studio I'd sneak a noise gate after it in the signal path and not worry a bit. There's nothing that compares to the H&K for warmth and authentic Leslie sound, but beware - once you set it up in a stereo rig, you may be addicted to dragging TWO keyboard amps to every gig. It really is that luscious in stereo. I use this with a Roland JV1010 module (with all the organ sounds in the Keyboards of 60's & 70's expansion module) midi'd off my Kurzweil SP76 as controller.

First off, this pedal sounds amazing. I play through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe on the clean channel and the quality of sound is incredible. The breaker feature is great, it gives a nice clean overdrive sound to your rig. If I'm not using the pedal as a rotary cabinet effect, the pedal is always on with the breaker on. As for the rotary feature (what you'd buy this pedal for), the sound is nice. It can get your guitar sounding like an organ if you so desire if it's on the higher speed. On the slower setting the sound is sweet, with a kind of gentle tremelo to it. The two major downsides to this is 1) it's EXPENSIVE. Make sure you want it and know exactly what it does before you buy it. And 2) using the rotary effect on a drive channel of your amp or using another distortion effect with it (either before or after the rotosphere) can mud the sound significantly. This is why I stay on the clean channel. All in all though a great pedal if used right.

I bought this pedal as an upgrade to my Rolls Twin Spin pedal (which ramps up and down sort of like a real leslie but not quite). This pedal has the "grind" that you hear like on "Badge" by the Cream or or on some of the Abbey Road material like "Because" or "Something" or Santana's Caravanserai album with Carlos and Neal Schon's interplay on "Song of the Wind." The problem that I've experienced playing this pedal live either through a Fender Reissue 1959 Bassman or a Marshall JTM45 "BluesBreaker" amp is that it's noisy. Changing the tube is a challenge unless you are good with electronics. I've had to change the tube twice, I've owned it for almost 1 and 1/2 years now. Hughes & Kettner tech support is almost nonexistant. I've sent out countless emails for help and have only had one reply from Pearl but it wasn't much help. Those of you looking for this sound may want to consider a Destination Rotation. This pedal is "close" to the Rotosphere, but not as "true" sounding as the Rotosphere. I am tempted to try Boss' Rotary pedal but don't want to spend the money. I hope that this helps.

So I went to the NAMM show recently and decided to try this out. Man was I impressed. The sound is just fantastic. I expected it to be brittle, but it definately wasn't. Just needed a small tweak on the amp, but that's it. Hopefully, when I can save up enough money, I'll buy one.

This thing does what it claims to do. I run a korg cx-3 through this into my Crate KX-80 keyboard amp and the sound is so close to a real Leslie that now I can sell mine as space is very tight. Great clean and also cranked up a bit, or all the way to 11.(It doesn't really go to 11.) Expensive but worth it and built rock solid. After considering the other top similar products, I'm glad I bought this one. The very realistic breaker, in my opinion, puts it ahead of a couple of other very nice products that do not include this feature.