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David Mar Group: Members Posts: 457 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: Jan. 14 2005, 05:49 If so, and you have access to various instruments, I'd love to hear what various instruments e.g. electric mandolin, electric banjo, ukulele etc. sound like played through chorus, flanger, phaser - seperately, then in various fx combinations! Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Jan. 14 2005, 05:56 I'm no multi-instrumentalist, but I've heard a flute played through a mic put through a wah-wah pedal and that sounds pretty fantastic! -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Luca Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Jan. 14 2005, 06:30 Ive got an electric mandolin, and an acoustic banjo, ill do you some tunes if you like!   Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Jan. 14 2005, 10:44 My personal favourite is running the bridge humbucker of a bass through a guitar amp simulator set to fry (I'd not recommend trying it with a real guitar amp...) and hitting power chords on the higher strings, which results in an absolutely huge heavy 'guitar' sound (it works to slightly below guitar range, but too low and it just gets too messy sounding). Distorted octave mandola is quite fun, the doubled strings give an extra fatness. Electric mandolins can sound rather shrill if not treated with care, and I'd think the same would apply to ukulele (though that said, if it has steel strings, it'll no longer be a true ukulele...those with piezo pickups would fare rather better sound-wise, though ukuleles tend not to have a lot of sustain, due to their scale length). John Paul Jones's solo material is worth listening to if you want to hear electric mandolins, mandolas and 10 (sometimes 12) string basses cranked up to 11. It's not for the faint hearted, though. There's Maestro Alex Gregory too, probably the pioneer of heavy metal mandolin...think of Yngwie Malmsteen shifted up an octave or two and you'll be in the right ballpark. Not my kind of thing. The thought of distorted heavy metal banjo is just too frightening to contemplate - please don't go there... Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 17 2005, 10:27 Experience with some well-known people has taught me to try anything with anything - conga through distortion pedal? No problem. 12 piece choir with a flanger and tremolo? If that's what you want In terms of instruments, I play keyboards and guitar reasonably well, and I can get by on mandolin, bass guitars, tin whistle, bits of percussion. I tried clarinet once but I couldn't stop laughing as the reed vibrated against my lips. I think oboe, sax, bassoon and doudouk have now been ruled out. I often use mandolin through a delay and chorus actually - that sort of thing has been a lot more common since people started including reasonably good little mics or pickups on acoustic instruments. A cello player I know plays through a series of guitar effects pedals including distorton and wah-wah - a very interesting sound but you need to have really clean playing technique because it really exaggerates all the harmonics. I'd love to see more effects pedals designed for vocalists with moving filters on a pedal (like wah-wah on guitar but tuned for a vocal range) maybe looping delays so you can build up vocal parts live. That effect Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory got on the Goldfrapp song "Lovely Head" (a voice, distorted and put through an envelope-following filter so it sounds a little like an unusually expressive theremin) was incredible. A gentleman wouldn't play a banjo... but let's not get started on banjo jokes. Back to top

emac Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Jan. 22 2005, 03:19 Electric guitars, Acouctic guitars (nylon & steel), Baritone guitar, 12 string electric guitar, Guitar syntherisisers, Celtic harp, Mandolin, Tenor banjo, Roger's bouzouki, Bass guitars (4,5,8 & rubber string), Toy guitar, Keyboards (digital & analogue), Reed organ, Xylophone, Tin whistle, Trombone, Voice, Tamborine, Bodhran, Sleigh bells, Cardboard box, Fist, Alarm clock, Mantle clock, It likes to live in a pocket & Drum Program. Well, thats what I used on my last album anyway. Back to top

Nicolas Unregistered Posted: Jan. 28 2005, 18:01 Keyboards, acoustic fretless bass guitar, acoustic guitar, recorders, drumcomputer.  I only "master" the keyboards.  "Master" is a very big word here. Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Jan. 28 2005, 20:13 This is almost relevent: I discovered that one of our amplifiers can have a guitar lead plugged into it, so if I plug it into my brother's guitar amplifier I can listen to CDs with distortion effects. I'll have to try that sometime, even thought it is only a practice amp and won't sound too good. Imagine Hergest Ridge put through an extremely dodgey distortion! Slightly more on topic, I've heard Peter Knight from Steeleye Span put distortion on his electric violin. It sounded really good, like a guitar with really really good sustain. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

David Mar Unregistered Posted: Jan. 31 2005, 05:25 Various violin players have used effects over the years - e.g. the 2nd version of 'The Riverdance' video Blue Horses - the wackey celtic/rock band from Wales! I've seen Bond, the classical/pop string quartet live on their only UK tour - so far! They used distortion pedals in concert! Ed Alleyene Johnson - he particularly used delay, and would build up a number of overdubs and play along with them! Back to top

Jameson Kimball Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Jan. 31 2005, 09:07 Yes I play: Marimba, orchestral bells. tubular bells (chimes), Guitar, violin, Xylophone, snare and cymbol. And I am only 16 years old!! -------------- www.soundcloud.com/jamesonkimball Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Jan. 31 2005, 10:59 I can play the keyboard... I can play percussion with virtually anything... I can play a pen tip (makes an excellent buzzy sound, very Krautrock-ish)... and a rubber band... No, I'm no multi-instrumentalist at all. I don't even have actual instruments other than a keyboard. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

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