Just got the hard to find, FUNCTIONAL, Leslie Model 60, vibrato amp. PRIMO!

[Seanfir]

Gotta love these things when they work! I'm going to recap and go over both units in this stereo setup.
As far as Rhodes setups go, I think they did for Rhodes, what they did for Hammond, by providing excellent and capable amplification, with the highest quality effect, gotten in a way that few would even ASPIRE to, using a physical motor to drive a variable capacitor phasing/vibrato/trem effect... as only the brains at CBS/electromusic could do.

That, being said, these units are HARD to find in ANY CONDITION,  much less fully functional!
Often times the motor gives out or one of the many parts inside fails and the effect is lost... there are a lot of parts that can fail, and also are difficult to replace. This is seen by the large number of these out there that are not working for whatever reason!

But when they're all there, you've got the king of Fender rhodes amplification!
No fender product ever did what these guys did, giving both an analog phase, that sounds very smooth and subtle, and the ability to change it on the fly. The intensity is preset, so best to have that adjusted before you play, or modify it as some have done. It's worth the trouble to track down a working original.

I can't say it's worth it to find and restore a non-working one.
I've been brought a few, as repair jobs, as i am a well known vintage tech, and I never managed to get a broken one back to life which is one reason I got this one. So at least I will know what's going on in there and have an actual working model to compare. Because the schematics and information that is out there is scant and very few technical rundowns of these exist to the point where you can actually fix a non-working one at least. I'm going to write down everything that I see on this to better equip me next time I have to work on one if I ever do. They really are something special though if you want to get that perfect roads vibrato/ phase sound. But Leslie has a way of making those perfect combinations exist in the physical world. And also in a way that people are still trying to replicate in various pedals. But most fall short because what they did was by today's standard a rather intense and decadent attention to detail where cost and size where of little importance in attaining the final result. Got to love those guys even after CBS got them! LOL