It's very simple really.
Get him a mike... (Shure Beta 57A), plug it in to an old guitar amp, add guitar effect pedals to the mix, and let him go wild! You will need a line transformer to go from low impedance to high impedance...
Sax players have been doing this for ever,(since mid 60's anyway)Listen to Sonny Stitt and his varitone, of John Klemmer and his echoplex(Tape Loop delay box). The possibilities are quite endless, but first you need to get his sax in the mix, so to say,...In the Rock idiom, I use my own Guitar amp, because I'm tired of deaf sound-men controlling my sound.
I play jazz acoustically, with the sound of the room, but with Those funky fusion charts from the early 70's, Our sound guy hooked me up to a Harmonizer,(Like Breckers)so in the middle of the solo ,i hit a foot switch and the sound is split up into quartal harmony(In fourths), or preconceived voicings that I programmed into the unit. The audience would freak out, and look around the room, it was unreal! I felt more free harmonically to go outside the changes in order to take advantage of this technology. Some people would think that today, this sounds dated,, but that was in 1988.
It's possible to bring it all back. Why should guitar players have all the fun?
Us Saxophonists deserve to experiment with different effects, but most importantly, make sure he learns how to play the sax first!
Get him a mike... (Shure Beta 57A), plug it in to an old guitar amp, add guitar effect pedals to the mix, and let him go wild! You will need a line transformer to go from low impedance to high impedance...
Sax players have been doing this for ever,(since mid 60's anyway)Listen to Sonny Stitt and his varitone, of John Klemmer and his echoplex(Tape Loop delay box). The possibilities are quite endless, but first you need to get his sax in the mix, so to say,...In the Rock idiom, I use my own Guitar amp, because I'm tired of deaf sound-men controlling my sound.
I play jazz acoustically, with the sound of the room, but with Those funky fusion charts from the early 70's, Our sound guy hooked me up to a Harmonizer,(Like Breckers)so in the middle of the solo ,i hit a foot switch and the sound is split up into quartal harmony(In fourths), or preconceived voicings that I programmed into the unit. The audience would freak out, and look around the room, it was unreal! I felt more free harmonically to go outside the changes in order to take advantage of this technology. Some people would think that today, this sounds dated,, but that was in 1988.
It's possible to bring it all back. Why should guitar players have all the fun?
Us Saxophonists deserve to experiment with different effects, but most importantly, make sure he learns how to play the sax first!