What do you guys use with your Crowdsters?

[akivisuals]

I just picked up a Yamaha AG Stomp to use for some reverb/delay/tuning for my Crowdster upon reading some advice by someone on this board. Was it Pietro? I forgot... Anyways, just wondering if anyone is using anything other than a D.I. to process tones on your Crowdsters. I was using a Baggs D.I. before. I've also played the Crowdster through a cheap keyboard amp and was pleasantly surprised with how good the guitar sounded through that cheap amp with a little reverb. That's what got me thinking about the AG Stomp.

[Pietro]

I'm not much of an effects on acoustic guitar guy, so I'm using my AG Stomp (Hope you like yours!) to do just EQ, Mic modeling, a little compression and some verb. No delay, no chorus or mod FX (although I use plenty of them on my electric side.)

From the AG Stomp I run into a little Mackie mixer, where the signal is mixed with the electric side coming from my ToneLabSE, then I monitor through an onstage acoustic guitar amp and send to the house. I can change my volume on stage (when not wearing in-ears I ditch the on-stage amp) and not affect the house, and the sound person can't mess up my blend. I get compliments on my sound ALL the time on this, and I'm not even using a real amp on stage. I wish I was, but I just can't. Now that I got my old 66 bassman head back and am taking delivery of a little tweed 4x10 cabinet in the next few days... who know...

I think that a keyboard amp would work okay, but the acoustic guitar amps that are out now are REAL sweet. Check 'em out.

And by the way, if you haven't already figured it out, ignore the tuning on the AG Stomp. It's useless, especially, for some reason, on the high string. You really want to get a DT7 (korg) tuner, since it has the BFTS offsets at a reasonable price, OR even better... a strobostomp.

[akivisuals]

Thanks Pietro. I haven't fully explored the AG Stomp yet. Just took delivery on it a day or two ago. Now that I know the tuner sucks, I'll have to remember to bring my Korg tuner. I've also heard the chorus isn't very good either. Anything else I should know about on this guy? Which settings work well for you with the Crowdster?

[Pietro]

I'm the wrong guy to ask about chorus, as I don't like it on acoustic guitar. I want my acoustic guitar to sound real and woody, not processed.

That said, I think the chorus is okay on the Stomp, but I like my old Danelectro 18V cool cat way better. Again, I don't chorus Acoustic, though.

What I do is use Condenser 1 (the only mic model I use, some guys like Tube 1, Nylon is a must on a nylon string guitar, but I don't have a nylon string anymore) then I adjust the eq so that I get rid of the low mid and hid mid frequencies that hurt my ears, boost the presence to give it some air, and cut the low just a little to tame the low end (I don't want to compete with the bass.)

One thing I can say is this. adjust it to sound good WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS. If you adjust it so it sounds good when it's just you playing, it might sound really bad in a mix.

Hope you enjoy!

[getgo]

No FX for me. I run from Crowdy to the Pendulum SPS-1 for fine tuning. If I'm going IEM's that is it, If I am amping, I run from the SPS-1 to a Mackie 808S that powers two EV SX 300 Floor monitors. I have control of my guitar and vocal right there on platform and no soundman to rely on.:)

[LonestarGtr]

I like to use my Crowdster with an ART TPS rackmount preamp on the "valve" setting. It's basically like running it into a tube d.i., not a lot of eq changing (just warming) and no fx. The Crowdster always kills all of my other acoustics plugged in... kudos to Tom and Baggs for fine tuning the eq points on the guitar so well.