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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 2791
Location: Atlanta, GA. | New to me, but then again, I ain't been around that much.
Anybody use one of these ?
Taken from the Ellis site:
"The Ellis Stomp Box is a solid timber box which you tap with your foot to provide a rhythm to accompany your stringed instrument playing both in the Studio and in a live situation. Also known as a bass drum trigger, bass foot pedal, bass foot pedals, foot stomp, kick drum trigger bass drum foot pedal, bass drum foot pedals, bass stomp, drum beat box, bass stomp boxes, double bass drum foot pedal double bass foot pedal, double bass foot pedals, foot pickup, foot snare, foot tap, foot trigger mini stompbox, small stompbox, stompbox mic, stompbox pickup, chicken box, stompbox guitar wooden drum and many other names around the world."
A Rose by any other name??? |
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Joined: October 2008 Posts: 489
| Looks similar to this:
http://www.porchboard.com/ |
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6994
Location: Jet City | Al sells the Stompin\' Bass
It's a KAMAN Music product as well. |
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Joined: August 2005 Posts: 3736
Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I saw a duo last year that used a stomp box. It was the first time I'd seen (heard) one. He just made his own box and cut some foam to fit one of his extra mics in it. Worked great. |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | Yadda yadda, stompystomp.... who cares? Buy a cajon and find someone who can count to 4. It's another wage but a lot more interesting. |
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Joined: September 2008 Posts: 757
Location: Melbourne Australia | I've seen them around a bit with solo players. They can be a soft or as intrusive as you like.
There is a man in Oz who made the Breadwinner lookalike lapsteel AJ has that makes pretty good ones too. |
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Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I got one and they are fun to play with.
Bottom line....if you can't tap your foot and keep a rhythm you are in deep cotton anyway. |
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