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qmastah 
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 Topic: Best Effect for Roots RigPosted: 21 November 2011 at 6:57pm |
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Hey Everyone,
I'm in the process of building a rig mostly for Dub and Roots events and was wondering what do most people use as outboard effect units to run mics, sirens, and mains. Would be cool to get analog vintage sound. Q |
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studio45
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 7:38pm |
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Tape delay, spring reverb and, possibly, a switched parametric EQ (one where you can freely set gain and width but then switch thru several fixed frequencies to get that Lee Scratch Perry sound on the effect returns)
You'll want to be tweaking the tape loop in the delay with your fingers and whacking the reverb with your palm to get the full "effect" from your effects
 so get spare loops and a big chunk of foam to put the reverb on... |
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Posted: 22 November 2011 at 5:20am |
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Nice. any specific units? I keep on hearing about the roland space echo. Does anyone have experience using it in a live setting?
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Posted: 22 November 2011 at 8:02am |
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Urei 1601e.....
Boss de200.... Custom-built siren
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Posted: 22 November 2011 at 9:12am |
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Boss de200 is great especially on vocals
Boss rdd-10 or rdd-20 sound great on sirens Boss Re-20 Space Echo guitar pedal is really really nice for echoing music. If you want a proper space echo then you are going to need some serious money as good ones start around the 600 mark and go up and then you also need to become pretty good at servicing them and general looking after that a piece of kit of that age needs to stay working well. |
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Posted: 22 November 2011 at 10:38am |
The top Roots sounds I see at gigs, have pro 19" digital delay units, maybe even drum pads. Many have Roland/Boss SP303/SP404 Sampler/playback pads, 16x channel studio mixers with 4x AUXs. Last time I saw spring reverb being hit or dropped was 1991..  |
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Posted: 22 November 2011 at 11:47pm |
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Thanks for all the feedback. Just bought a DE200 for 150 USD on ebay. Will be wiring it into my mostec preamp.
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Posted: 23 November 2011 at 12:24pm |
Oh really? Which e bay was then then? There are none showing in the completed listings for the uk e bay at least. There are 2 on there at the moment from the states priced at £287 + 54 postage and £223 + 52 for postage.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=boss+de200&_sacat=See-All-Categories |
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Posted: 23 November 2011 at 2:36pm |
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yes. It's from ebay US. Here's the link to the listing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/250919936923?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 |
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Posted: 23 November 2011 at 3:49pm |
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ahhh i see.
nice one. they very good units. Enjoy |
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Posted: 23 November 2011 at 3:58pm |
Are these the units where pressing hold button, causes increasing feedback to reverb, until released ? How would you do this with digital delay unit without HOLD/Release, & studio mixer with AUX send/receive? Edited by levyte357 - 23 November 2011 at 3:59pm |
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Posted: 23 November 2011 at 4:05pm |
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hmm. not sure on that one. maybe a delay with an 'infinite' setting for the feedback?
But im far from tecnically minded enough to actually make much sense... lol Edited by phildat - 23 November 2011 at 4:06pm |
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