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Topic: Home made acoustic stomp box? |
Phill Martin
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Whitewater Kansas, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2008 10:19 pm |
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I was cruising around on youtube and saw some folks playing a acoustic stompbox does any one use these and has anyone made one? They are a hollow wood enclosure with a passive transducer pickup which you tap your foot or heel on for acoustic accompaniment.
I have a couple of old wood cigar boxes and some transducers. Some of the stompboxes have a low pass filter on them would this be a capacitor like on a guitar for tone?
thanks
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Dave Boothroyd
From:
Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 27 Oct 2008 12:12 am
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A blues playing friend turned up in my studio last week with three of these.
The first one was a plastic lunch box with a piece of plywood mounted on the lid using stacks of three of four washers between the wood and the plastic lid.
Inside there was a cheap loudspeaker (used as a very large diameter mic in this set-up) facing upwards towards the lid, and a volume control.
That produced a sound similar to stamping on a wooden floor.
The second was made the same way, but the casing was a length of 5" plastic trunking with foam stuffed in the ends. It produced a sort of high pitched "Pock" sound, and it could actually be played as a hand drum- I did some interesting little reggae fills with it, the sound suited that style.
The Mark 3 version was more sophisticated. It was based on something like a cigar box, but mounted to the centre of the lid, there was an 1/8 thick steel bar, about 3 inches long and an inch wide. Below this there was an old bass guitar pickup wired to a jack via a volume control. Also mounted loosely on the lid were four tambourine jingles.
It produced quite a convincing kick drum sound. I did not pick up much of the tambourine sound on the desk, but it did spill over a bit on the guitar mic.
All three devices needed some ferocious EQ to get a decent sound, so I would recommend some inbuilt filtering if possible.
Cheers
Dave |
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Phill Martin
From:
Whitewater Kansas, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2008 9:01 am
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I have about five inch and a half prezio pickups that I did wire together and taped them to the bottom of the cigar box. When run through the mic input they sounded good. I saw where a person had made a foot shaped tapper with a spring on it so it would stay up and he had it mounted where it was using the heel part of the foot and it gave it a tap tap tap sound. I'll mess around with some sort of capacitor to get more bass out of it, but all in all it looks promising as an accompaniment for the lap. Years ago I saw JJ Cale by himself with just a guitar and acoustic stompbox board for drums and it was one of the best concerts I ever saw back in the early 70's.
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YOU CAN TUNE A GUITAR BUT YOUR CAN'T TUNA FISH!
Bronson Melody King 6 string
National New Yorker 6
National D-8 Totem Pole
Rickenbacker D-6
Rickenbacker D-8
Frankensteinslide (OAHU/body) (SUPRO /string through pickup) (LESTREM/vibrato bridge)M88
Rickenbacker Amp M88 1953
1/2 watt sweet custom tube amp
Valco Supro Brown and White
Danelectro Twin 12
Crate all tube 12 watt with reverb sweeeet.... |
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