NOLA - Do you know how that stompbox actually works? Like, have you looked inside? Is it just a piezo disc, or...???
Why Not Piezo?
The Problem with piezo equipped stomp boxes is that Piezo Pickups are Fantastic for amplifying what they are attached to, like acoustic guitars, cellos even Cajons.
so why not a stomp box? well because a little wooden block doesent have the sound you want, so simply amplifying the block of wood isn't going to give you a "BASS" sound, but rather the sound of the wooden block, only louder. So in order to get that deep warm Bass drum sound we have to look outside the square and introduce a vibrating element. A bit like an electric bass guitar uses a string-pickup rather than a big acoustic body, my stomp boxes use a vibrating membrane and a pickup, creating a bass sound in addition to the sound of the Box/puck or whatever you use the transducer in!
Yeah. I mostly just use its clean boost mode. The feedback knob is also kind of a "clean blend" knob, so that as you get more feedback happening, you also hear more of the signal coming direct from the delay. That feedback signal is pretty loud (if it's doing anything interesting), but also only gets so loud (cause of the clipping in the rat), so the boost at the front gives me more room to blend the two. Course, I've always mostly used it as a boost cause I never really liked the sound of the fuzz modes. I've found a few uses for them recently, but mostly out of necessity since I haven't actually been using the board. I just pull that sucker off and use it on its own.Is that the boss hyperfuzz?! I owned one of those years ago. They're really cool. I can't find mine...think it got lost in a move. Ugh!
That reminds me, I think I've got a Zoom somethingorother stashed somewhere. Made some cool noises, but I never could quite figure it out.
AND, while I've been looking for things to sell, I forgot about my Rat. Pretty sure I bought it in the early '80s, and I used it very little. I guess it did it's thing alright, but it's thing was just never my thing. Never wanted a pointy head guitar in my life.
Louddog - god I wish I could learn to be as neat as you. My typical thing is a pedal on the floor going to one on a TV tray, to one one on a combo amp, to the amp.