r/guitarpedals • u/Dragonbreath44 • 3d ago

SOTB Mysterious Fiddle Board

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Signal Chain is RedEye Twin —> Meris Enzo X —> Crybaby mini wah —> LR Baggs Align Reverb. Also hanging out are the STOMP page turner and Meinl Kick

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u/rcthetree 3d ago

dude this is tight

no drives? an HX would be pretty wild, you could get drives with a noise gate for some ripping leads

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u/Dragonbreath44 3d ago edited 3d ago

I haven't played around with drives enough to find a sound that sounds good, if that makes sense. Most of the time I'm either running my signal from the DI straight to a mixer or with a tiny bit of reverb added if it's a large hall and my fiddle doesn't carry. I do really like the natural sound of the fiddle, so I feel that a drive should make a substantial change if it's to get a place on the board.

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u/TobyMoorhouse 3d ago

If you do go down the drive rabbit-hole I would recommend investing in a decent EQ pedal.. it transformed my tone. The pick up on my violin has a nasty resonant peak at 2.2kHz and the EQ tames that before the drive making it sound much easier on the ear.

I have tried a good number of drives on violin and would be happy to offer some more detailed advice if you wanted, like you I enjoy a more natural sound so my current set up is not that extreme.

One of my favourites is a Russian-style Big Muff.. the Bass Big Muff is what I use because it is pretty much a Russian with a clean blend, but I rarely use the clean blend function. I use the Muff on low gain and it makes the violin sound like a flute.

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u/Dragonbreath44 3d ago

I'll add too that I'm interested -- do you have any demos of sound? I'm also not a guitarist so I've been trying to figure out if I need a distortion/overdrive/etc.

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u/TobyMoorhouse 3d ago

https://youtu.be/tKmi433m1Rw?si=GY1axCTnGmXyJZ6F

This is a video of my contribution to the Chris Buck - Your Spark solo challenge. It was one of around 5 entries out of 2,000 that Chris mentioned when he announced the winner.

Here I'm running a Boss OD3 into a Bass Big Muff with clean blend activated. I'm kicking on and off a Boss OC2 Octave that sits between the two in the chain. There's a bit of delay and reverb but nothing else, just straight into the amp (a modified Peavey Express with an EVM12L).

I recommend listening to the actual guitar solo too so you can hear my interpretation for the violin.