(Percussion) Stomp Boxes

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I built a stompbox almost exactly like Les Claypool was using with his duo band Duo De Twang. We used it for a couple years gigging but I’m not currently playing out. I’ve sort of converted it into a digital sound using the Roland kick pedal. This video explains it all, check it out!

 

I think there's two kinds stompboxes: Acoustic and electric. The electric ones are really just resonate plank of wood or a box with a piezo. They don't make much sound acoustically. But the other kind you can actually hear in the room and can be made from cigar boxes, old suitcases, or you could add a foot pedal to a Cajon. Google stompbox percussions, foot percussion, mississippi drum machine, and suitcase kick drum.

I made one of these that I use with my resonator guitar.
I didn't use duct tape, I screwed it together and used cap nuts so it sits slightly off the floor. It sounds like a closed hi-hat. It's definitely loud enough for acoustic settings.

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Wazinator

 

You mean for gigging? I've never tried it. But I've used mine when jamming with buddies. I believe in tapping my foot loudly so there's no doubt about where the beat is. So it's great for that.

 

I built one myself using a cigar box, a vintage license plate and a piezo pickup. Called it the Gatineau Stomp Box since it was a 1930s-era Quebec license plate I used. Sounded like crap.

I then bought a commercial one - A Shadow SH Stomp unit. Sounded good but the ergonomics weren’t working for me. I’m kind of a heel stomper, not a toe tapper.

Gave up trying after those two experiments but I’d like to try to get something close to what Scott H Biram uses in his Judgement Day video.

 

Were you running it into your amp or the PA? I'd think they would need some EQing. If I built one, I'd put a tone pot on it. Like this guy:

 

We use a Woodskin. It's made in Australia and is a cajon with built-in kick and snare pedals.

Here it is in action with me doing my one-man-rhythm-section thing. The sound isn't great as it's straight from the desk but you can get a very convincing kick and snare sound with a kick mic inside the box and an SM58 pointed at the face of it.

 

I made one many years ago out of a piece of 1/2" walnut I found at the hardware store.
cut it to a rectangle about 10" x 8", glued a small piece about 1/2" x 10" to one edge so it had a small incline, then I bought a $5 piezo pickup, glued it to the bottom, and sent that out to the PA.
sounded pretty good for my UB & Slide guitar duo I had for a while. I have no idea where it is now.

 

No experience, but here's one:
SX SBX II Stomp Box

 

SDrum for writing, jamming alone or even live solo - easy-peasy

 

Amp (Gibson Falcon) when I doing some americana stuff with the cigar box. PA when I was accompanying myself on resonator with the Shadow unit. I EQ'd the snot out of the one in the PA.

 

Not a bass drum/stomp box (and usually played on the 2 and 4), but I’ve been using a “low boy” hi hat you might want to check out. It’s been handy in my 3 piece.

 

i have one of these .... Roland SPD-ONE ... they have a few models , mine is the Percussion ... hit it with ' whatever ' .. i used my foot ..

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...9a&gclid=CJ28pqztx-QCFVZGgQodDg0NVw&gclsrc=ds

 

When I was looking for a stomp box, I was thinking about getting one of these Petermans:
Online listing for popular Stompboxes to buy now.

Or these Roland SPD Ones:
Roland - Drums & Percussion - Percussion

Then it occurred to me that I already had an old Boss DR-880 drum machine and I could just grab a Boss FS-5U foot pedal for $35.00 and connect it to the DR-800 and assign a kick drum sound to it. Works great.

 

What's your experience been with the SDrum? I'm reading some mixed reviews. Is it easy to get a drum pattern happening in real time or is it something that you would just use by yourself. For instance, at last night's jam at my house we didn't have our drummer, is it easy and quick enough to get a beat going for each song or would I be spending too much time mucking around each song?