Hallo, Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote: > Guitar effects on a microphone is very hard to manage without uncontrollable > feedback. But I saw it done - on a saxophone yet! - by a trio called > Spongehead (guitar/bass, sax, and drums).
Cool. I even have a record by them, on Shimmy Disc, I think. > The sax player used wah, echo, and an octave divider (which on a > tenor or bari gave him some very nice deep notes, allowing the sax > to function as the bass player on some songs!). I don't remember if > he ever used distortion. He played through a big guitar amp, i > think. That was my plan, as well. > Basically you want to: > 1) use a very directional mic that mounts on the sax itself - > there are some made for this purpose. I don't know what kind of > pickup the Spongehead guy used, but it seemed to have a cable > coming from near the mouthpiece??? My microphone then wasn't directional enough, I guess. > 3) don't stand right in front of your amp :) But that was the main problem: the room was so small, I had to standing near the amp. I tried squeezing myself behind it, with some success squeezing-wise, but not feedback-wise. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
