Use paper tape to close the resonance holes to keep the "ugly feedback at bay" I assume you are using a clip on pickup or something similar to get the signal. Anyway closing resonance holes will help to reduce the feedback use something that does not ruin your instrument though like "paper tape/mahlers tape".
Guys who play guitar with fuzzboxes can sometimes get their guitars to sound like violins or cellos - on hearing this I think it safe to conclude that theory does not work in reverse!
the line 6 dm4 doesn't sound AWESOME on guitar, i guess, but for cello it's great-- it has a bunch of different distortion tones to mess with, and more importantly, with the expression pedal, i can cut it off before it feeds back.
IMO the Big Muff is not at its best in low gain settings. You gotta crank your tube amp before it sounds right.
At lower "polite" levels, it just sounds like "nails on chalkboard" scratchiness.
One idea: try using a running your amp through a power soak unit (otherwise known as attenuator or speaker modeller) to drive it into saturation at a tolerable room level. ONLY THEN will your Big Muff will start to sing.
dude, PLEASE, PLEASE take up bass guitar! I used to play the cello (5 years in fact) and got a tad bored and went to bass and have never looked back. Seriously, don't put fx in your cello signal.. no offense, but it sounds horrible.
I just got a pick up for my cello, and i get really bad feedback with me distortion pedal... If you have the amp facing away from the cello and kinda away from it to... no more feedback.
Pretty cool even though the signal chain is backwards.;) Should be "cello to preamp to bigmuff to amp" not amp>bigmuff>preamp>cello. I know, I know, I'm just being picky. :)
Sounds awesome :D Good idea. However from the vid it sounds as if you get a lot of feedback with that, i get the same with my hollowbodied guitar if i use the big muff unfortunatly. Im buying a noise gate right now to stop the feedback :) It might be useful for you to get one too unless you have one of course :P
@itsatimemachine i dont know alot about cello pickups, but i know they make pickups for acoustic guitar and bass. could be worth looking into and would help with that nasty distorted hum
there is a kid on youtube that puts a wah pedal after his violin, i think it would sound cool- wah-big muff-viola. i love my guitar with a wah and my big muff
Yeah, flamenco guitars are really high-tech, aren't they? :P
Check out the guy on youtube who plays a MIDI accordion. Or that new electronic harpsichord Roland put out. Any instrument is as high- or low-tech as you want it to be.
Hate, though, will always be the low-tech version of human behavior.
just because its not 'popular' doest make it low tech or crap
and really what it boils down to is what the player likes, I like playing guitar, not cello, but i can appreciate the cello's music and the player
also for your consideration:
the numerous players that make awesome music on youtube using salt shakers and bottles of water. thats REAL low tech, but they still enjoy it, as well as other people.
1) Get a parametric EQ, either a separate pedal or a replacement for your preamp (e.g. Baggs Para). Use it to cut the frequencies that are causing feedback when you turn the fuzz pedal on without playing anything.
2) Disable the tweeter on your acoustic amp, if you can. Or else roll off the high treble response of the amp. That gets you a more electric-guitarish sound. Amps for electrics don't have tweeters.
Haha...exactly. Rat + cello = win. Another one I really like, which just came in the mail yesterday, is the ZVex Box Of Metal. That's in a whole other price range, but if you really get into effecting your cello, worth saving up for to get a very different distortion sound. The built-in noise-gate is great. Enjoy the journey, and post some more videos along the way.
you know, this is really the only pedal of this sort that i have tried. i have a fishman gII preamp, which simply boosts and eq's, and i have an ehx smmh, which i am sort of still figuring out, but can create really cool washes of sound. i am hoping to keep trying out/maybe making videos of good fuzzes/distortions/overdrives, until i find one i really like
that's awesome. I'm actually gonna be getting my first cello and i sorta have this vision of making a rock band out of classical string instruments, sorta like apocalyptica in a way. so if i get good at cello, i'm probably gonna go to guitar center and like mess around with some things there to find a rockin tone.. come to think of it, do they allow cellos in guitar center?? :D
Do you get the same feedback when you turn down the sustain on the big muff? (also can you lower the volume on the pickups? that might help too)
Ombrenuit 3 months ago
Use paper tape to close the resonance holes to keep the "ugly feedback at bay" I assume you are using a clip on pickup or something similar to get the signal. Anyway closing resonance holes will help to reduce the feedback use something that does not ruin your instrument though like "paper tape/mahlers tape".
Arlekiin777 3 months ago
Guys who play guitar with fuzzboxes can sometimes get their guitars to sound like violins or cellos - on hearing this I think it safe to conclude that theory does not work in reverse!
raindogred 1 year ago
You should watch your bow placement better..... just sayin.
xManicSubsidalx 1 year ago
from 2:25 onwards, it sounds like a dangerously large animal dying a painful death...love it!
screwdriva 1 year ago
Hey everybody--thanks for all of the comments and views over the past two years! if anyone is interested, this is my current set up.
fishman c100 pickup > fishman gii pickup > line 6 dm4 w/ exp pedal > ehx stereo memory man > ibanez pm7
the line 6 dm4 doesn't sound AWESOME on guitar, i guess, but for cello it's great-- it has a bunch of different distortion tones to mess with, and more importantly, with the expression pedal, i can cut it off before it feeds back.
itsatimemachine 1 year ago
love it.
bobert995 1 year ago
mate, maybe you can go crazy, put a wah on it, or a compressor or something to kill the feedback,
CaponeFavilla1 1 year ago
@CaponeFavilla1 Yeah good plan use a compressor to kill feedback.. makes perfect sense
MJMorrey 10 months ago
@MJMorrey I could kill u instead.
CaponeFavilla1 9 months ago
ok now put a wah-wah and meet me at the studio
CaponeFavilla1 1 year ago
Excellent. Next time, though, put it through a Marshall!!
kynoceph 1 year ago
When you press the bow harder, you could get some cool eerie sounds out of that with some tape-like echo and lots of modulation.
DORKYBA55ATTACK 1 year ago
love is noise.....;)
maibanez 1 year ago
Man you seem to just have get out of Auschwitz
You should eat something
idri07 1 year ago
heh loool
IIIIIFLEAIIIII 1 year ago
You need a soild body cello. Get one from Ergo bass.
All teh feedback is coming from the soundboard on the cello.
TheHexeract 2 years ago
All it does is add noise. It does almost nothing to change the sound.
DaveDoggOwns 2 years ago
thanks for rapeing my ears, now I can't sleep for days...
D1sque 2 years ago
Sounds like Rasputina.
ShyNirvanaDemon 2 years ago
IMO the Big Muff is not at its best in low gain settings. You gotta crank your tube amp before it sounds right.
At lower "polite" levels, it just sounds like "nails on chalkboard" scratchiness.
One idea: try using a running your amp through a power soak unit (otherwise known as attenuator or speaker modeller) to drive it into saturation at a tolerable room level. ONLY THEN will your Big Muff will start to sing.
My 2 cents.
themancable 2 years ago
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You're a mother fucking nigger. And this from a black drunk man.
Fuuuuu
SamAlexander14786 2 years ago
dude, PLEASE, PLEASE take up bass guitar! I used to play the cello (5 years in fact) and got a tad bored and went to bass and have never looked back. Seriously, don't put fx in your cello signal.. no offense, but it sounds horrible.
hailesj 2 years ago 2
you sTiNK @ C3ll0.
backwardsbook 2 years ago
I just got a pick up for my cello, and i get really bad feedback with me distortion pedal... If you have the amp facing away from the cello and kinda away from it to... no more feedback.
micahbuster101 2 years ago
no shit?
turpalarva 2 years ago
Very nice. You've made me very jealous.
ABOxyd 2 years ago
Pretty cool even though the signal chain is backwards.;) Should be "cello to preamp to bigmuff to amp" not amp>bigmuff>preamp>cello. I know, I know, I'm just being picky. :)
guitarpkr76 3 years ago 2
haha, yeah, i know now. i was young and stupid!
itsatimemachine 3 years ago 3
Sounds awesome :D Good idea. However from the vid it sounds as if you get a lot of feedback with that, i get the same with my hollowbodied guitar if i use the big muff unfortunatly. Im buying a noise gate right now to stop the feedback :) It might be useful for you to get one too unless you have one of course :P
Anyway good video :D
karl198 3 years ago
which one are you going to get? tell me how it works! that would be a great help to me-- even without distortion, i get a little hum
itsatimemachine 3 years ago
Well since i posted that comment i've bought the noise gate :P
I bought a boss ns2 noise gate and it works really well. I used to have loads of hum and feedback from muff fuzz now i can just dial it out.
There are others on the market but this one gets the job done for me :)
karl198 3 years ago
@itsatimemachine i dont know alot about cello pickups, but i know they make pickups for acoustic guitar and bass. could be worth looking into and would help with that nasty distorted hum
remy1121 1 year ago
you know i was thinkin
there is a kid on youtube that puts a wah pedal after his violin, i think it would sound cool- wah-big muff-viola. i love my guitar with a wah and my big muff
10m19l92o 3 years ago
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i hate cello its a fucking low tech piece crap get a guitar
damddwarf 3 years ago
nah man, babes <3 baroque, get with the picture
itsatimemachine 3 years ago 15
Yeah, flamenco guitars are really high-tech, aren't they? :P
Check out the guy on youtube who plays a MIDI accordion. Or that new electronic harpsichord Roland put out. Any instrument is as high- or low-tech as you want it to be.
Hate, though, will always be the low-tech version of human behavior.
miesvanderrobot 3 years ago 10
damdwarf wtf guitars were orignally instruments that poor played
sourpips 3 years ago
@damddwarf
just because its not 'popular' doest make it low tech or crap
and really what it boils down to is what the player likes, I like playing guitar, not cello, but i can appreciate the cello's music and the player
also for your consideration:
the numerous players that make awesome music on youtube using salt shakers and bottles of water. thats REAL low tech, but they still enjoy it, as well as other people.
IM JUST SAYIN
remy1121 1 year ago
Good start. A few recommendations:
1) Get a parametric EQ, either a separate pedal or a replacement for your preamp (e.g. Baggs Para). Use it to cut the frequencies that are causing feedback when you turn the fuzz pedal on without playing anything.
2) Disable the tweeter on your acoustic amp, if you can. Or else roll off the high treble response of the amp. That gets you a more electric-guitarish sound. Amps for electrics don't have tweeters.
3) Try a ProCo Rat. It sounds great on cello.
miesvanderrobot 3 years ago
Hey, thanks for the tips! I am looking at that Baggs EQ, and it looks great. Definitely something to look into.
And oh maaaaan, are you right about the Rat! Haha, even the unwanted feedback sounds cool with it.
itsatimemachine 3 years ago
Haha...exactly. Rat + cello = win. Another one I really like, which just came in the mail yesterday, is the ZVex Box Of Metal. That's in a whole other price range, but if you really get into effecting your cello, worth saving up for to get a very different distortion sound. The built-in noise-gate is great. Enjoy the journey, and post some more videos along the way.
miesvanderrobot 3 years ago
That wold sound even better with some kinda delay pedal in there somewhere, real wall of sound!!
Keep experimenting man, its all good!!
septicrat 3 years ago
Thanks! Yeah, since making this I picked up an EHX Stereo Memory Man. Once I figure out how to wield it, maybe I'll make another video.
itsatimemachine 3 years ago
sweet. ever try any distortion pedals?
darthangel310 3 years ago
you know, this is really the only pedal of this sort that i have tried. i have a fishman gII preamp, which simply boosts and eq's, and i have an ehx smmh, which i am sort of still figuring out, but can create really cool washes of sound. i am hoping to keep trying out/maybe making videos of good fuzzes/distortions/overdrives, until i find one i really like
itsatimemachine 3 years ago
that's awesome. I'm actually gonna be getting my first cello and i sorta have this vision of making a rock band out of classical string instruments, sorta like apocalyptica in a way. so if i get good at cello, i'm probably gonna go to guitar center and like mess around with some things there to find a rockin tone.. come to think of it, do they allow cellos in guitar center?? :D
darthangel310 3 years ago
aaaaaaaaronnnnnn!!!!!!!
itsatimemachine 3 years ago
horrible. 1 star.
BurnAllYourArt 3 years ago