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MICRO VENT 122 & 16

If Donald Leslie had ever come up with a micro version of the rotary speaker he invented in about 1940, it’d still have been as big as a toaster – and probably would have sounded like one, too. Luckily for Neo Instruments, minimising things is a lot easier when you do it digitally.

Neo launched its Ventilator pedal in 2011, into what was then a distinctly uncrowded field of Leslie simulators. These days, there are many to choose from, but the Ventilator II and slightly smaller Mini Vent II are widely regarded as the best of the bunch. The arrival of the compact

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