This is what I think I’ll be working with for a while or untill some cash comes on-line and I can get to a bunch of unfinished projects can be finished.
The instrument has two bass strings and two piezo’s with preamps and tends to be sensitive enough to be able to play just about everything on it. Yesterday I was going to cut some notches in the wood of the body of it to also have a guiro to play, I’ll get around to it by wednesday and 10 acre block though.
From the piezo’s I go into a phaser pedal and that works really well with the long notes I can get but is somewhat problematic with the resonance setting the feedback note and it’s frequency… I think anyways. Then it’s into the Boss DD-7 which is a miraculous delay pedal I’m just starting to get my head around. Just setting and forgetting doesn’t work with this as the repeats being the same speed gets kinda monotonous but working the speed and feedback and turning the pedal on and off to work over the tails is lotsa fun.
Then it’s into the looper, Boss RC-2, but it’s not used so much as I’ve yet to really understand the possibilities of it but I’m making a little headway.
Last night, after I did a set, Ivan had a go with the setup and I realised how important it is to work the settings on the delay, but he seemed to be having fun… until Karen pushed him off and she started playing it. She seemed to be having fun but was a little too tentative and mystified by the available sounds… but it was interesting watching her.
Next step is mounting the speaker above and away from my hearing. I kinda listen to Rohans advice about speaker placement and stuff but it doesn’t work for me as I need to have the music going out louder than what I require for monitoring so when I place myself between the speker and the outside world… they can’t hear me!
Oh and the mischevious little box with glass tubes on top is the moonlight designed by Simcha Delft of NZ Musician and even features one of his handwound output transformers. Lovely little amp!