![]() Or you could buy two individual effect specific pedals such as these for EQ : You could buy an all in one processor, which might cost you a bit more but would mean everything you need is in one pedal something like this: ![]() You could achieve this using a guitar pedal but is highly dependant on budget. ![]() What you need and what I find most useful to get that chunky thud is an EQ section and a gate compressor. If it is a jack I can understand your scenario as there are SO many options. For me to answer you question, I need to know what sort of connection your stomp box has, is it a jack, or an xlr? Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions about what i have done, Comments very welcome! And because he inspires me and many others Here’s a quick example recording of how mine sounds with a bit of slide guitar thrown in. It will help give it punch but keep it under control. If you have it available to you, whack a compressor on it. (I put little rubber feet on mine just to lift it off the floor, otherwise you can hear every time someone moves around the stage, especially if its a temporary one.) CAUTION, the sound pressure levels coming out of your stomp box can be somewhat aggressive, especially using the speaker driver mic design. Once secure, screw the back of your box on, and you are more or less ready to go. Seen below is the super secure means of fixture that is, and could only be, BLUE TACK. So that when fixing it the driver had a little bit of space to move. I made sure that the depth of my box was slightly deeper then the depth of my driver. Make sure when fitting your “microphone” there is a small gap between the face of the speaker and back of the area to be stomped, if they are touching it will clip out without hesitation(or just not work because the cone cant move). If you don’t have one of these kicking around Don’t be disheartened!! you don’t need one to make the speaker mic work, it simply boosts the signal a bit, without one you will need to give a fair amount more gain on the input to the recording which may lead to a bit more signal to noise ratio (the hiss when you crank it) Shown here is the circuitry taken from the Beyerdynamic M201 which when it worked, was an awesome little dynamic microphone. you also see the output cable “securely” fastened. If you used a smaller driver or a full range driver the output may be more prone to feedback over a larger frequency range, where as this “microphone” would only be affected by low frequencies. It also means the “microphone” can take a thrashing without damaging the coil. Using this knowledge I hooked my driver (soldered) up to a tiny transformer taken from a Beyerdynamic-M201 microphone that had a broken diaphragm (costs about as much as a new one to fix it so didn’t bother) This is then soldered onto a short XLR to connect to a DI or straight to the PreAmpīecause a stomp box tends to only create low frequencies in using a sub driver I am effectively putting in an automatic high cut on the audio output because the driver simply wont pick up those frequencies. ![]() You can make a microphone out of any speaker, even headphones, if you plug a set of headphones into a microphone input on your computer they will work as a mic, not a very good one, and also fairly quiet. For this I used an old sub speaker from a broken set of computer speakers that had died, the sub driver was still good so I thought I would put it to good use. What you build needs to have a nice thud to it, if it is too shallow it may lack the boom.īought stomp boxes tend to use a piezo microphone, I however decided to MAKE my microphone (very easy and satisfying). What ever you build make it sturdy, if you have some old ply or hard wood, That is perfect. After a broken box I decided to make my own, as my usual DIY jobs it was made out of bits and bobs I found around. If it makes a nice deep thud when you stamp on it without it breaking then you are half way there. When building your stomp box first of all you need a box. Hence the scruffiness and improvised methods. I came home from the weekend and it was the first thing I did, No bath or shower required. I made it after seeing Seasick live at a festival. Now, by no means is what I made a pretty thing. (If you are thinking about building one, read this first, there are few tips that should really be at the beginning but would have been out of context otherwise.) He is the main influence for this DIY stomp box. Originally brought about by the american blues and folk music Artists such as John Lee Hooker used it to create a thumpy “Kick drum” like sound in recent years Seasick Steve (named his home made box the “Mississippi Drum Machine”) uses his stomp box to please the crowds on his UK festival circuit every year. The Foot stomp is something that has become a big thing in music in recent years.
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