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[plutek]

@janklug

piezobarrel mics

yes, those!

installed in the barrels of my clarinets, and i’ve got my sax necks and bassoon bocals drilled out, with threaded adapters soldered on so i can screw those piezo parrel pickups into those as well. needs a fair amount of EQ, but i’ve worked that out and the isolation and feedback suppression is fantastic.

i started with the pickups from TAP in Greece, but now mostly use similar devices from Ertan in Turkey. …they’re so common in the balkan clarinet world, as you know!..

oh, and the big game-changer for me was a couple of years ago, when i moved to wireless (transmitter velcro’d on the horn) – especially with multiple horns on a show, the cable tangles used to get intense! …and it’s really nice to be mobile on stage!.. i use the Boss WL-20L.

here are a couple of pictures, showing the setup on bassoon:

the bassoon bocal installs are a little frightening, because the hole for the mount removes more than half of the tube! …but this is actually still my favourite bocal for acoustic playing, with a plug screwed in…

[janklug]

@plutek

Ertan

Ah cool, might try one of those. Would be nice if they fit in the same fitting as my piezobarrels!
Until now I wasn’t too happy with the sound, but that might be because I don’t want to drill into my favourite mouth piece, so I used the cheap ones… So neck might actually be better… Hmm…

And the wireless option is then a nice extension; thanks for the link & pics!

[plutek]

here is the Ertan pickup!

my saxophone ones are installed about halfway between the end of the mouthpiece cork and the octave vent.

pretty sure the hole size and thread for screwing in the piezo body are standard… at least all the Greek and Turkish ones are the same!

my woodwind tech designed and machined the adapters he soldered on to my necks and bocals.

…to bring it back OT, i use this for EQ:

TAP Equalizer/BW

…often followed by these, to complete my “preamp stage”:

TAP Tubewarmth
Tilt Tone <— for fine, one-knob on-the fly tone tweaking

[Paskal_Eclair]

What is the color knob reference on the dwarf ?

[SamIAm]

There is no ‘logic’ to the colour cap choices, just what looked nice.

[raidolo]

Well… here’s my lethal combo, Ryzen 5800h mini pc, Debian 12 realtime kernel, MOD software compiled and running in docker. Presonus 26c and a custom midi pedal based on PedalinoMini project. I did some “fixes” at the Mod Ui to manage the change of pedalboards via midi while the ui is open. It’s killer. I mainly use Neural Amp Modeler with standard profiles, plus IR cab loader and convolution reverbs.

[malfunction54]

sweet!

[SamIAm]

AWESOME!
What sort of round trip latency do you get with the presonus?
Sam x

[raidolo]

I’m running at 64 samples, 2 periods, it like 7ms in real tests looping the input end the output. You don’t notice it at all.

[mrdinsdale]

Currently got 2 boards, one is my main one I use for bass (my main focus) and the smaller one with my Dwarf is my guitar rig.

I’ve been playing around with how I hook it up and currently I’ve settled on using the OC5 to split the signal. Direct goes via the EAE OxEAE Fuzz then to input 1 and the octave signal goes straight to input 2.

Means I can do fun stuff with signal paths and the OC5 doesn’t mess with the analog octafuzz stuff that the ExEAE does.

So far it’s pretty fun.

On the Dwarf I’m using the JVCM and some other stuff. Going to start looking at some delay next.

[Techno]

Very cool!

[jpk_dk]

My setup is really minimal for now (but I like it, so why change!?):

Boss Tuner - Dwarf - Genzler Re/Q

I have this in the effects loop of my Bergantino B Amp - might not be according to “doctrine”, but works for me and sounds great

[jeanloup]

It’s so great to see all of these setups ! Very inspiring !

Well, here is my setup !

There’s a big (almost fully) analog front end before the Dwarf:

• KP-1 Comp
• DOD Looking Glass
• Division Drive (tube overdrive)
• Ram’s Head Big Muff Clone (Large Beaver from BYOC)
• Jam Pedal Chorus/Phasor Rippley Fall
• Thorpy Effect Camoflange
• And the BOSS GE-7 for solo boost !

All the noise bits are in the loop of the Noise Reaper noise gate.

The Eventide H90 handles some pitch algorithm, specific FX and sometimes some synth stuff (their polyphonic detection is mind blowing)

Then the signal goes to two tube preamps:

• Kingsley Constable (Plexi-ish)
• Effectrode Blackbird (Blackface-ish)

And finally it all goes into the Dwarf which runs:

• A mixer to blend the two preamps (each one of them goes into a dedicated input)
• A convolution for cab sim
• And then in parallel : a tape delay, a “digital” delay (can’t remember the name of the plugins right now) and the Mutable Instrument Clouds inside of Cardinal

[malfunction54]

that is one cool setup! Did you build the physical frame? I’ve not seen anything like that before.

[jeanloup]

Yep, it’s DIY !

[Techno]

[malfunction54]

@jpk_dk

might not be according to “doctrine”, but works for me and sounds great

The only “doctrine” I’m aware of is: “if it sounds good, it is good”

[Avery_Devine]

It’s seen a few updates since this messy picture was taken, but old laptop hardshell briefcases make for excellent small pedalboards!

[malfunction54]

nice and compact!

[Avery_Devine]

It complements my instrument!

I did manage to squeeze one more pedal on the board. I’ll take more pics soon.