Re: In Praise of Stomp Box Pedals was: ModFx on ebay

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

One of my fave 'wild metal guitar meets Jan Hammer' sounds is my very abused Yamaha FB01 through my Digitech Twin Tube guitar pre amp.  It really wails.   I think I used a bass patch to do that.  
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On 4-Jan-07, at 4:02 PM, RICK WALKER wrote:

> Dirk Wilbert said:
> "Think I will never need a real synthesizer - my CP33 piano sounds like a
> synthesiser with these two - and in combination with metavox and philtre
> there's nothing it can't do ..."
>
> I'm glad to hear someone else has this approach.
> Back in the New Wave days before I could afford a synthesizer
> I used a really cheap original Casio keyboard through guitar effects pedals.
> I even put a Fairlight CMI sign on it as  a joke.
>
> A few weeks ago, I had a scheduled debut for my industrial middleeastern project,
> nO thiN -g with John Connell and Robin Jacobs (founding ex-member of Switchblade
> Symphony) and my main synthesizer went down AND my old Akai sampler with
> all the cool industrial drum sounds went down the night before the gig.
>
> I took an old Alesis QSR  synth with really normal, boring sounds and ran it
> through a Boss Distortion pedal.........................it sounded great!!!
>
> Lets hear it for cool stomp box pedals.   In fact if any one is interested I moderate
> a stomp box pedals tribe  at tribe.net   http://STOMPBOXPEDALS.tribe.net
> Come join me there...............it's a nice resource for finding out what's out there
> in any given style of pedal.  We had a very nice thread on distortion pedals here while back.