I like the sound of Piezo, any good kit out there to 'enhance/control' a bit?

axisus

OK, I know lots of people just have to come and bang their drum loudly saying that it sounds nothing like an acoustic, and I have no plans to argue with that, but I just find it a very appealing sound to have on board. It's ideal for some of the things I like to do.

Anyway, with my current setup I'm thinking that I'd like to find some kind of pedal to enhance/control the sound a bit more. I'm thinking of getting a Behringer ADI21 as they are cheap, but I was wondering if anyone uses any kind of acoustic simulation/enhancement that they like? As usual though, I'm trying to work on the cheap!

Supportact

I use a Fishman Aura Spectrum pedal for this, although I wouldn't say it was cheap (although it does also include eq and compression and an fx loop so arguably has more than one use). Good but takes a while to get the settings right. 

I find an eq pedal (graphic or parametric) is handy, especially if you end up playing through house PA systems which all sound different. The MXR 10 band one I found was pretty good. I just used it to cut some offensive frequencies which helps make the sound more natural. Also use a Boss ge7 sometimes which is equally as good but fewer bands. 

I've not used the behringer pedal but it seems to get very good reviews and wouldn't cost much to give it a go. 

ICBM

I use a Boss AD-8, which has both conventional EQ and acoustic modelling - not the most up to date unit, but I much prefer it to the AD-10. Shouldn’t be too expensive to buy now.

TTony

Pedal based; something that takes IRs?

DAW based; there are millions* of plugin options.



*might be an exaggeration.  Possibly only a few hundred thousands.

axisus

TTony said:

Pedal based; something that takes IRs?

DAW based; there are millions* of plugin options.



*might be an exaggeration.  Possibly only a few hundred thousands.

I'm sure that's very good, but at the moment I just want a simple pedal of some sort I guess.

Sporky

Fuzz.

Piezo into fuzz is ace.

TTony

There's a Zoom A2 on eBay for £20 at the moment?

barrettisgold

Tech 21 Para Driver is a useful tool; DI, signal splitter, eq and saturation. They seem to hold their value on the used market. Not particularly cheap compared to some others mentioned.

normula1

The Nux mini IR comes with a bank of acoustic guitar IRs. I also have the free Worship Tutorials acoustic IRs loaded into my Helix. Does a very good job of making the Piezo in my acoustic sound realistic. Also use it with my old Variax 500 in raw piezo mode.

PolarityMan

Sporky said:

Fuzz.

Piezo into fuzz is ace.

so is fuzz into fuzz