A distortion pedal for a synth? Any recommendations?
Hi, I'm not sure I've ever been to this forum before. I tend to only read and post in the old Sonar Producer (not X1/X2) forum which is pretty much a ghost town. I think half the posts are people who post there by mistake. Maybe someday I'll upgrade and then venture into more popular places. In the meantime I have a non-sonar question so here I am!
I don't ever play live and have no experience doing it. Also I'm a keyboard player and know nothing about guitars. But I'm playing live for this "American Chopper: Live" show in Vegas next month at the Hard Rock. The band is B3, two guitars, bass, drums. Last year I played harmonica and that was fun but this year I want to beef up the sound a bit and make it more edgy so I'm handing over harmonica duties to someone else and bringing some synths with me.
I've set up a very small rig which consists of a midi keyboard, a Novation MiniNova, a Moog Slim Phatty, and a small Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixer. I'm really happy with it and I'm having a ton of fun tweaking the sounds in real time.
Not 100% happy though... what I really want is some sort of pedal that will twist/distort/mangle the output even more. Does this exist for synths? I'm looking for distortion pedals and they are all for guitar... can you run a synth through a guitar pedal or does it not work like that? The Slim Phatty is a mono output, the Novation MiniNova is stereo but I assume I could just use a mono output...? I'm looking primarily for distortion but I wouldn't mind have anything else that is cool and/or gritty, mangled, twisted, etc. What about the Korg Kaoss Pad Quad? Is that something that could do what I'm looking for?
If you have any idea/suggestions I'd love to hear them. I have pretty much free reign to bring whatever sound I want. And as I said I have zero experience with any of this stuff. Thanks.