Amps for electric Violins?

dogload

My ex and I used to play in a lprog rock band together and she used to play her electric violin through my Peavey Classic Chorus 130. Plenty of headroom and tonal options.

Clarky

fretmeister said:

Any ideas?

The daughter of a friend has just got an electric violin and needs an amplifier.

My first thought was a keyboard or bass amp - but what say you fine people?

DC has a couple of Zeta violins.. 

iirc, they have piezo pups

he used to play them through a Boss GT-10

now I think he has a Boss GT-100

meltedbuzzbox

Mesa Tremoverb or something equally as heavy

midlifecrisis

i had someone use my peavey bandit with e violin. sounded fine. I would imagine any amp with good clean headroom would be good. I play my mandolin through mine, similar frequency range.

VimFuego

fretmeister said:

Jalapeno said:

fretmeister said:

Jalapeno said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

AER would be good, but a bit expensive.

Ditto on the AER, our Django violinist uses one (used to use a Roland 30w monitor), and so does Elana James of The Hot Club of Cowtown.

She's 10 years old. I think an AER is somewhat out of reach at the moment!

You might have mentioned that :-w

Also, why the flipperty-flop buy an electric violin for a 10yo ?

It's a bit like the Yammie silent ones. So it's a fair bit quieter and she can practice with headphones as well.

put a clothes peg on the bridge of a regular fiddle, does a good job of quieting it up, without shifting the pitch at all. I'm told 2 pegs will dead it almost completely.

I use VOS clothes pegs, hand crafted from old growth oak by gypsies for that more vintagey silence.

ICBM

My daughters have practice mutes for their violin and viola, but they don't like them much because they kill the tone and dynamics as well as the volume, and they seem to find it harder to play well with them on. I can completely understand that.

Here's why electric violins are cool… this sounds like it's got distortion on it as well as a bit of delay. The original studio recording had tape phasing on it as well by the sound of it.

(Skip to 2'59" if you want to go straight to the violin solo.)

Be careful if you're searching for the original studio version, the album cover is probably NSFW.

57Deluxe

is she in a Roxy Music MkII tribute band? Or String Driven Thing trib?? Doctors of Madness??