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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 22, 2011 at 2:37am

HBB,

Dirty as in "slight fizz," "crunch," "lightly distorted," "raging metal skin flaying buzz saw?" A humbucker through a saturated tube amp is one of the most popular ways to get this. If all you're using is the piezo, then...

One word: amp.

Depends on the amp itself, and the settings you use to saturate the tone for the level of distortion that sounds "dirty" to you. Are you bringing your own amp, or using whatever "backline" amps are available at the gig?

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on August 22, 2011 at 2:45am

Actually I wanted to switch LIVE from the humbucker to a combination humbucker piezo, using the piezo to dirty up the sound... I do this using the shut off handle on the box... so using this instead of a foot pedal...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 22, 2011 at 2:53am

Oooooooo....that's funky...looks like a fuse box.

Huh.

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on August 22, 2011 at 3:38am

yea it it.. a shut off box turned into my Texas Electric... maybe just shove a pedal inside the box and call it quits!  

 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/texas-electric-new-pup?context=...

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Permalink Reply by Wade on August 22, 2011 at 7:13am

I throw mine in the compost pile - nice trashy tone! But, seriously I think a pre amp or a decent amp makes all the difference. I love my Roland cube amp

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on August 22, 2011 at 7:18am

Yea I think you're right after talking to a few people... Thanks all

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Dubman on August 22, 2011 at 8:15pm

Feed the output from a 386 amp into another 386 amp?

 

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Permalink Reply by Hip Bone Bellaire on August 23, 2011 at 2:08am

Seems like I'm trying to make a piezo pup into an effect...

My head is messed up.. 

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