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Post by Malc on Nov 25, 2015 18:32:27 GMT
I have recently been thinking about buying a Stomp Box ( foot drum) I wonder if anyone has any experience with these. I've listed to a few on line and to my ears the English made Beat root sounds good.
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Post by slide496 on Nov 25, 2015 19:08:04 GMT
I got an inexpensive SX just to see if I would take to it and I found the angle of it not particularly comfortable and its quite small so that was really a lesson in what I don't want. I think they depend somewhat on the sole of the shoe you wear, how deliberately you play them and how skilled you are at it. I'm not upgrading to a more comfortable larger model as I don't have that kind of material that I would need it - just yet another passing flirtation for me.
Lawd lawdy, Harriet
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 8:18:46 GMT
I know of one 'blues' player who seems to have gotten a lot of mileage with the music press etc from having a 'home-made stomp box' (like that's a major achievement in music lol). However, I wouldn't bother with them again - they are generally a disappointment. If you are serious about having a decent kick sound, buy one of these. A bit cumbersome, but perfect sounds at every gig. Or buy a kick drum...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 8:53:48 GMT
Aren't these stomp boxes just a wood box with a piezo mic?
Fred McDowell used the floor -- sounds great.
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Post by twang1 on Nov 26, 2015 11:20:15 GMT
I've been using the same plank of wood for the last 20 years and used it at every acoustic gig whenever I didn't have to catch a plane. A simple plank of wood with a tambourine on it. I amplify it with a mic. You stomp and the tambourine (if you like that sound) vibrate as well. Lately I have added a handmade wooden stompbox with a cheap piezo underneath and EQd with a lot of bass (going through a D.I.). So I have two kind of sounds. Stomping is part of my sound! Frank
I give away my trick: if you want more volume from the plank you just put a pencil underneath the edge of the board!
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Post by slide496 on Nov 26, 2015 11:41:56 GMT
For practice, what I like about a piezo driven stompbox, mine has a battery, is you can get the percussive sound off the floor, I use mine on a footrest and amplify it with a danelectro honeytone - that way, living in a condo I don't bother neighbors and I can set the amp and volume where I want near the mic.
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Post by Bob Stockton on Nov 26, 2015 12:30:29 GMT
I thought that was what the little legs on the bottom of a mic stand were for?
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Post by slide496 on Nov 26, 2015 14:03:21 GMT
Here's my current home practice set with tap box up for electric- the orange dots are over the MiC, danelectro amp , and at bottom the SX stomp box and the shoe I chose. Its real easy to put away and I like a lofi, intimate sound but its not something I use more than every now and then. The iphone next to the danelectro is connected to the MiC and I record through the roderec app.
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Post by Bottleneck John on Nov 26, 2015 14:47:14 GMT
Here's my own Mojo-Box, a cool little stomper that I built some years ago, worked wonders during hundreds of gigs, never failed once. It's got a nice angle for the foot to rest on. Easy to make yourself, got a piezo pickup under the top.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 16:26:21 GMT
I'm still trying to train myself to stomp consistently while playing... might be the way I'm seated. And I'm usually barefoot, which doesn't help.
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Post by Malc on Nov 26, 2015 17:19:46 GMT
I find it easier with my heel rather than front of the foot. The heel seems to move without me thinking about it.
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