Hi everyone!
First off, let me go ahead and admit that I do not play the saxophone. I actually I play guitar in a three piece rock group. What am I doing here, then?
Okay, here's the deal. The music my band plays is a mixture of jam, rock, funk, punk, and third wave ska (think Sublime meets Primus meets Tool meets Phish meets...well you get the point). It just so happens our drummer's kid brother plays the saxophone is quite talented. He has recently joined us during practice and his horn compliments the band tremendously, but the sound a sax makes only works with a small fraction of the of music that we play.
Now I'm no tech buff, but I'm thinking to myself if my effects pedal can make my guitar sound like a record playing backwards, surely there is a tool out there that can make a saxophone sound like virtually anything a person could dream up. I once heard a guy play a guitar through a processor that made it sound like a piano for god's sake! If we had that sort of solution at our disposal then 'little brother' (as we so affectionately call him) could use his sax to add some spice to every song we play in a very liberal and freaked out fashion. Essentially, the band's predetermined prognosis of genre skitzophrenia would no longer pose a barrier to 'little brother's' participation in it.
So I come to you for help. I know a few things about guitars but I couldn't tell my head from my butt when it comes to enhancing (or completely distorting and bastardizing) a wind section. Can anyone point me in the direction of such an effective gadget? Thanks in advance for all of your suggestions.
Incidentally, I hope no one takes this post as a bash on the true sound of the saxophone. It's a great instrument all by itself; just one that happens to be difficult reconciling with speed metal - although we have been experimenting.
First off, let me go ahead and admit that I do not play the saxophone. I actually I play guitar in a three piece rock group. What am I doing here, then?
Okay, here's the deal. The music my band plays is a mixture of jam, rock, funk, punk, and third wave ska (think Sublime meets Primus meets Tool meets Phish meets...well you get the point). It just so happens our drummer's kid brother plays the saxophone is quite talented. He has recently joined us during practice and his horn compliments the band tremendously, but the sound a sax makes only works with a small fraction of the of music that we play.
Now I'm no tech buff, but I'm thinking to myself if my effects pedal can make my guitar sound like a record playing backwards, surely there is a tool out there that can make a saxophone sound like virtually anything a person could dream up. I once heard a guy play a guitar through a processor that made it sound like a piano for god's sake! If we had that sort of solution at our disposal then 'little brother' (as we so affectionately call him) could use his sax to add some spice to every song we play in a very liberal and freaked out fashion. Essentially, the band's predetermined prognosis of genre skitzophrenia would no longer pose a barrier to 'little brother's' participation in it.
So I come to you for help. I know a few things about guitars but I couldn't tell my head from my butt when it comes to enhancing (or completely distorting and bastardizing) a wind section. Can anyone point me in the direction of such an effective gadget? Thanks in advance for all of your suggestions.
Incidentally, I hope no one takes this post as a bash on the true sound of the saxophone. It's a great instrument all by itself; just one that happens to be difficult reconciling with speed metal - although we have been experimenting.