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Pulled the trigger on a 'Joyo American Sound' pedal. It is meant to emulate a mic'd up 57 fender deluxe amp, but you can also get it sound like a twin reverb. It's cool because it's fully analog. No clue how they do that...

Here is a scooped mid tone from my rhodes (apologies drum machine might be mixed a tad loud for this!)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CH6iWaJnk0-/

Works great on the wurlitzer too, I just use the voice knob to give it more mids because I don't like the high end too much on my Wurli cause it can be a bit harsher than the rhodes.

I moved into a really old building with paper thin walls and floors. I have been playing the Wurli direct out of consideration for others, but that is still too much for them. She said she can hear the notes even tho im not amped!

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Should I wrap the wurli in a lead blanket?!

-Ryan

I really like the sound of my Wurlitzer through a mic'd up amp, but i moved to a new apartment where I can't make any noise so am back to recording direct! Has anyone experimented with the different mic / cab emulators on the market for guitars and applied them to Rhodes/Wurli? Examples are the strymon iridium, ox top box, boss waza, helix... Would appreciate any thoughts before dropping the dough on one $$$

I recently bought a Moog Grandmother off craigslist, mostly for bass lines, but it actually has an instrument input. I have been plugging my Wurlitzer into this and then using the Moog's high pass filter to remove some of the low end, then using the main filter to add resonance and tame some of the high end of my Wurlitzer which is voiced to have a good amount of bark. I also enjoy doing really slow and subtle filter sweeps with the LFO to add some movement to the tone. The Moog also has spring reverb on it which sounds nice on the Wurlitzer. This combination makes it really easy to just plug in and record direct without warming up my tube amp and annoying people around me! I usually leave the synth in 'drone' mode so that the Wurlitzer is always flowing through, but another interesting option is to to leave it envelope mode, so that the Wurlitzer signal only comes through when you play a note on the synth. You can get really cool synthy chord stabs this way, but live!

Here are some videos to demonstrate...

Chord stabs with rhodes/moog:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCd2ox4neyy/

Wurlitzer through moog on drone mode:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmqwlMHlLe/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCfRJlYnwb1/

Nice free FX for when recording. So if you have the kind of microphone that you can hang over your amp (like a sennheiser) then use that, then placing a metal mixing bowl (rounder is better) over the microphone then put a blanket over the amp. This does a couple of things

1) something about the metal mixing bowl with the mic inside of it focuses the tone more, reducing muddiness. for my wurlitzer it brings out the nasal/plucky parts of the tone that almost remind me of banjo. maybe it's a phasing thing

2) when you get the wurlitzer to bark it pushes a lot of air through the amp and you get almost like a plate reverb affect because the metal bowl will vibrate

3) removes any bad room sound

4) allows you to crank your amp a bit louder without bothering people 

try it out! especially for wurli!

Hey y'all

I love pitch vibrato, a lot. I wanted to get a Boss VB-2 but those are super expensive. I ended up getting the TC Electronic one instead and am pretty happy with it. If I could make one tweak to it I wish I could dial in a SUPER slow rate, the slowest rate is a bit too fast. However, I really like how fast it can go. When I dial in a really fast rate and a shallow depth I feel like it makes the Rhodes sound almost like a bird singing, like its chirping or something. Here is a clip of me playing with a very fast rate:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7pNu2UHkug/

Hey y'all,

I was thinking of buying a synth bass to play along with my Wurlitzer. What are some of your favorites for pairing with Rhodes/Wurlitzer?

I was using a dynacomp for a while, but really didn't like what it did to my transients. Made the keyboard "feel" weird too. I recently picked up an "accountant" compressor by fairfield circuitry. It's definitely not transparent, and when its really working its adding some distortion. But the benefit of this is that it doesn't feel weird to play the same way a dynacomp would.

Here is a little recording I did with some pretty heavy compression.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6OmGelnEkp/

Anyways I thought it help anyone who was exploring guitar pedals for compression 

Hi everyone,

I'm new to electric pianos, and a recent owner of a Wurlitzer 200A. There is a lot of talk about how the JC-120 is a great pairing for electric piano, but I can't find anything about the new JC-40 (2x10). I'm drawn to it because I'm looking for something clean, with headphone jack, and a line out (so that I can color DI if doing a late night session). I won't gig with this thing. My landlord lives above so I can't have them hate me!

Are the 10 inch speakers a deal breaker? Is that why it gets no love on this forum? I like playing R&B / neo-soul chords so I normally like to EQ out my low end so that I can play clustered voicings. Does that make having 12 inch speakers less relevant? Thank you!