The Addams Family - eMando!

[Ken Olmstead]

I was playing with my POG2 when I stumbled on this sound. I instantly knew what had to be done! :grin:

[JEStanek]

That's a riot. Very nice, Ken.

Jamie

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Wonderful. "Altogether ookey" :grin:

Daniel

[delsbrother]

<snap snap>

[Ken Olmstead]

Thanks, its a fun one! Maybe "Get Smart" next huh? :)):))

[Santiago]

I was playing the Munster theme just the other day.

[taboot]

One more barrier smashed. I was just looking at the POG pedals the other day, now I may have to look a bit more closely... Nicely done!

Christian

[mcH]

I have been tempted to try a pog pedal with my fiddle. At least now I know there is another use for it.

[mehrsam]

That made my day!:))

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Ken,
What are you using to amplify? IS it a standard guitar amp or a more PA-like amp?
Just wondering how different boxes would handle 2 or 3 octaves.

Thanks!
Daniel

[Ken Olmstead]

Thanks again everyone!

Daniel, the chain is KE300 - POG2 - Line 6 Constrictor (compressor) - Line 6 Roto-machine (Leslie Simulator) - Hardwire Reverb - lastly into the Fender Princeton Reissue.

The octaves on the emando are all pretty effective through the PRRI. On guitar, however, the -2 ocatave will tax the PRRI pretty quickly. I did upgrade the output transformer on the PRRI and that did help quite a bit. The better option would be a 12" equipped keyboard amp or maybe even bass amp with solid state constriction to keep it prefectly clean and tight. But it does work surprisingly well through the Princeton!

[Daniel Nestlerode]

Thanks Ken!

[comicbookguy95]

fricking sweet dude!! where might one find a tab of that??

[David Cottingham]

Awesome!

[taboot]

Thanks again everyone!

Daniel, the chain is KE300 - POG2 - Line 6 Constrictor (compressor) - Line 6 Roto-machine (Leslie Simulator) - Hardwire Reverb - lastly into the Fender Princeton Reissue.

I'm curious about compression with the e-mando these days... Anyone have tips on where to place it in the signal chain? I've currently got one at the end (right before a volume pedal which goes to the amp.) I know that's somewhat unconventional, but I'm looking for it to function mostly as a studio compressor would with fairly transparent sound, etc.

Those of you that also play electric guitars, any compressor related thoughts or experience I can learn from?

Christian

[Ken Olmstead]

I'm curious about compression with the e-mando these days... Anyone have tips on where to place it in the signal chain? I've currently got one at the end (right before a volume pedal which goes to the amp.) I know that's somewhat unconventional, but I'm looking for it to function mostly as a studio compressor would with fairly transparent sound, etc.

Those of you that also play electric guitars, any compressor related thoughts or experience I can learn from?

Christian

I am with you. I generally like it at the end as more of a limiter rather than a squishy sound up front. This chain is optimized for electric guitar "organ" sounds. I found that buy leveling the signal after the Roto-machine, I lost a lot of the Leslie Speaker realism. I think Compression is one effect that is very handy and a little goes a long way! The compressor also adds needed sustain in this case to make the "organ" sustain more realistically. I think this is one of the most important effects to experiment with your chain line up. It seems to react differently in each position.

[...and Master of None]

The POG is a cool pedal - I've used it (the original) for organ-like swells playing rhythm on acoustic guitar. Now I'm going to have to try it with my mando!

Re. compression - I'm not a big fan of compressors as such except when I'm doing long-sustaining pedal notes on bass guitar. Otherwise, about the only compression I use is the compression you get from running a decent tube preamp right at the edge of saturation.

In fact, unless you're looking for heavy compression your most bang for the buck is probably something like this http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/ART-Tube-MP-Studio-Mic-Preamp?sku=180581 very inexpensive and quite tasty for getting natural compression. BTW, don't waste your money on the newer version http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/ART-Tube-MP-Studio-V3-Mic-Preamp?sku=180610 because the silly "voicing" switch doesn't work well at all - and doesn't really add anything you can't do with the original. (I've got one of the latter and two of the older ones.)

I use one of those on my five-string bass and the only time I have to kick in a compressor pedal is when I want notes to sustain a long time.

John

[...and Master of None]

Very nicely done, Ken!