[linux-audio-dev] LAD meeting - LinuxSoundNight

Lukas Degener AFBLukas at gmx.de
Wed Feb 26 21:09:00 UTC 2003


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>Guitar effects on a microphone is very hard to manage without uncontrollable
>feedback.  But I saw it done - on a saxophone yet! - by a trio called 
>Spongehead (guitar/bass, sax, and drums). The sax player used wah, echo,
>and an octave divider (which on a tenor or bari gave him some very 
>nice deep notes, allowing the sax to function as the bass player on 
>some songs!). I don't remember if he ever used distortion.
>He played through a big guitar amp, i think.
>
Well and of course, let's not forget the Maestro himself: Miles Davis 
blowes his horn, distorted and through a wah, i think e.g. on "Live 
Evil" . It's sometimes hard to tell which lines are played by him and 
which are played by the guitar.

Lukas




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