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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Kim Flint wrote: > Seems like tubes would be better for the higher strings on the stick, >since > a little bit of tube distortion would probably give a good sustain for > them. > > Of course, this falls apart for looping, where you need something >cleaner. > Then you probably want something like Dave is suggesting. Gotta love that tube sustain, huh? :} Actually, since the Stick already has split pickups for its two courses of strings, I'd use a SansAmp or something along those lines to get that electric guitar effect. That way, you can switch it in and out of your chain, like any other effect. Personally, I use a BBE 2+1 rackmount preamp (with BBE effect and speaker emulation), and a ProCo Rat II. Between them, I get a wide variety of clean and distorted sounds with no hassle at all. I probably get more use from the speaker emulator effect than the distortion, really. It takes that jangly, piercing edge off the guitar. It might be good for other instruments, too. Actually, guitar-like amp effects can be VERY useful for other instruments. One of the most amazing looping pieces I've ever heard was done by an old roommate of mine, running a shokohachi (Japanese flute) through my primitive Boss Delay/Boogie amp looping rig, and picking up reverberation feedback from the monitor speakers through his microphone. He was trying to get difference tones, and succeeded admirably. -dave By "beauty," I mean that which seems complete. Obversely, that the incomplete, or the mutilated, is the ugly. Venus De Milo. To a child she is ugly. /* dstagner@icarus.leepfrog.com */ -Charles Fort /* http://www.leepfrog.com/~dstagner */