Electric Violinist inspires kids ???

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:38 am

Take a look at this news story about Mark Wood . He trys to inspire kids to become musicians by electrify the violin and the the music . Comments anyone ?

http://www.electrifyyourstrings.com/mediacoverage.html

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon May 01, 2006 9:40 am

We, (The Creekers) much prefer to play accoustic music but crowds over 20 or one loud drunk will dictate what amplification is needed.
There are only three of us and although we don't do any thing different with our playing amped or not, we must have control over our performance and prevail over backround sound be it loud drunks or boat races outside.
In a small room we may only need our 300 watt Peavey with two 10 inch speakers and tweeters for vocals and harmonica and let my tuba go accoustic. A slightly larger venue, may call for the Peavey cranked high and tuba only going thru one 300 watt JBL EON. Outside, we normally use a 16 channel Mackie board and 6 EONS but we can always rent more self powered EONS and woofers and daisy chain them to what we have.
Dennis Gray
tubatooter1940
www.johnreno.com/

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:50 pm

"Poindexter" did it in the original Revenge of the Nerds over twenty years ago.

Too bad they had to ruin an otherwise great movie by making it almost into a soft core porno.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:37 pm

When I was in high school, there were two reasonably good California parade marching bands, Porterville High School (from Porterville) and Chaffey High School (from Ontario), that used little portable amplifiers. They never used them for competitions--only for "fun" things, as well as TV appearances. The little white boxes really worked (they made the band loud), but the sound was like a really distorted short-wave transmission of Radio Moscow or the Voice of Progess. I know this amplified violin is not to do something like that, but I don't want to make my tuba sound like Jimi Hendrix's guitar.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:54 pm

LoyalTubist wrote:When I was in high school, there were two reasonably good California parade marching bands, Porterville High School (from Porterville) and Chaffey High School (from Ontario), that used little portable amplifiers. They never used them for competitions--only for "fun" things, as well as TV appearances. The little white boxes really worked (they made the band loud), but the sound was like a really distorted short-wave transmission of Radio Moscow or the Voice of Progess. I know this amplified violin is not to do something like that, but
I don't want to make my tuba sound like Jimi Hendrix's guitar.

I used a Korg effects pedal with up to 60 effects on my Gibson 330 electric guitar. It gave me a much-needed sound change-up when I played 4 hour gigs alone. Do what ever is necessary to keep all songs from sounding the same.
In my youth I played trumpet with a harmon mute thru a guitar amp on max reverb. The guys in the band called it "The Sound". The highs were not too loud but the low notes would rattle the rafters.
We're going into the studio to record our second Creekers album and John Reno is suggesting using some effects on tuba. It might be nice to have some faze shift for dramatic blues passages and maybe a little distort to give me an edge to the tuba without blatting.
We'll see. Heaven knows we'd never do anything tacky.
Dennis Gray
tubatooter1940
www.johnreno.com/

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:59 pm

ben wrote:The guy and his website don't excite me, but I've heard some great musicians with electrified strings.

Don't forget my personal favorite, Jean-Luc Ponty

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:27 pm

Back in 1976 I played electric violin in a rock band; we did a combination of New Wave, oldies, and originals. I used a Fender Twin, an Echoplex, a phase shifter, and a volume pedal. We weren't half bad, either. We did New Country (Jean Luc Ponty) as one of our tunes too.

I've got a couple pictures somewhere, that I drag out and show to people at work once in a while so they realize I used to have a life.

MA

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:49 pm

MaryAnn wrote:I've got a couple pictures somewhere, that I drag out and show to people at work once in a while so they realize I used to have a life

Well? Now you've picqued our interest!

Charlie Goodman · Post by **Charlie Goodman** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:35 pm

I've tried running my tuba through my bass amp and my bass distortion pedal... you really have to crank the distortion level to notice a whole lot of sound change. It kind of just sounds like a really poorly recorded tuba.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:52 pm

Charlie Goodman wrote:I've tried running my tuba through my bass amp and my bass distortion pedal... you really have to crank the distortion level to notice a whole lot of sound change. It kind of just sounds like a really poorly recorded tuba.

I would like to make a "clean" tuba recording-16 or so bars ought to do. Then copy it and then run a recorded copy thru several effects packages until we find some that may work.
I bet MellowSmokeMan knows some practical techniqes to add effects to tuba in the studio.

Note to MA,
If you think you used to have a life, get married again. The pain will be a constant reminder that it ain't over yet.