Speakeasy News Blog

Nord USA has partnered with Speakeasy Vintage Music to produce custom player packages consisting of Nord Electro keyboards and Speakeasy sound systems.

Multi-level packages are planned ranging from entry level keyboard and preamp packages, all the way up to stereo Roadbox IIIB systems - and standard Roadbox III and IIIC systems for those who want real moving sound.

Watch this space for more details as they become available - and have a look at the extensive line of quality keyboard instruments from Nord USA

Steve sat down this week and did some on camera playing of a crusty old A100 from our “Boneyard” piped through the Roadbox III (SE122) and Submon subwoofer. This “roadbox system” really kicks ass as the organ’s speaker system - So if you have a good clone, and wonder what our speaker sounds like, CLICK HERE for the video!

Steve sat down this week and did some on camera playing of a crusty old A100 from our “Boneyard” piped through the Roadbox III (SE122) and Submon subwoofer. This “roadbox system” really kicks ass as the organ’s speaker system - So if you have a good clone, and wonder what our speaker sounds like, CLICK HERE for the video!

Interested in the RBIII for guitar? Take a look at the demo video (Flash required)

Special thanks again to Joe Tracey for coming by to play with the new cabinet.

We’ve taken the now popular Roadbox MKIII and designed a new edition especially for guitar players. Now you can get that famous rotary speaker sound in a NEW piece of gear using YOUR amplifier, and as an added bonus it comes with an additional foot switch to switch between our two way rotary speaker system and a straight connection to the 12″ speaker. If your fav amp is an amp head, this is the only speaker you’ll need.

Introducing, a roadbox with a little bit more! We’ve teamed our Roadbox III with our AMA (Absolute Modeling Amplfiier) and added a 250watt solid state amplifier to bring you the same great tone in a higher power range.

Best of all, with this configuration, you can get quite clean tone or grunge! Now you get your full tilt rock organ sound without waking the neighbors!

To fulfil the request of one of our customers, we tackled the challenge of doing it better. Pictured here is our newest item, the 1122 SE connector kit. Designed to connect modern clonewheel keyboards and organs to vintage 122 tone cabinets.

Built in one of our now classic enclosures, with no sharp points and designed to sit on the floor. We’ve taken a fully discrete approach - NO opamps, NO chips, and NO low voltage power supply. This all old school analog unit taps the 122’s B+ power to support it’s built in amplifier and *Transformer Coupled* output stage.

The transformer, and it’s driver provide a punchy yet smooth tone while you have EASY ACCESS to the volume and tone controls. Other units need a screw driver for the volume and have no tone control at all!

This unit also supports both speed switching, and power on/off to your 122, all controlled from the 11 pin input.

Click Here to order from our webstore today.

With the continued success of our research, we felt is was a good time to let you all know about what’s to come for the Roadbox Series cabinet.

Our new experiments involve a unique and new approach to amplifier design, targeted to getting an authentic “L” tone in a high wattage package.

Here are the specifications for the new TUBE POWERED models due for release later this fall.

RBIII-AMA & RBIIIB-AMA

• New High Power Treble Driver
• 250 watts RMS Output
• Available as 122Type, 147Type, Combo (1/4″ input),and NEW 11 pin compatible model

And for the Gospel Market…

RBIV

• 145 Size Cabinet
• 15″ Woofer
• New High Power Treble Driver
• 600 watts RMS output
• Available as 122Type, 147Type, Combo (1/4″ input), and NEW 11 pin compatible model