Effect Pedals for Moog Prodigy

Greg_S · Post by **Greg_S** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:09 am

Hey just wondering does anyone know any good effect pedals to use with a Moog Prodigy. I've seen pictures of this band i like using an Ibanez tube screamer effect pedal, but was wondering if there were any others that anyone could recommend.

Cruel Hoax · Post by **Cruel Hoax** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:42 am

I've seen pictures of this band i like using...

Well, for one thing, you use your ears, not your eyes when judging things like sound.

Okay, less flip:
What do you want a pedal to do for your sound? Make your mono Prodigy sound big and wide? Make it dirty and screaming? Spacey and floating? Do you want it to echo your notes to provide polyrhythms you can play against? How about sampling your playing and looping it live?

Seriously, asking "what's a good pedal?" is like asking "what's good paint?" Well, what are you painting? A car? A Chinese watercolor on silk? A patio chair that's going to sit out in the rain? There are all kinds of colors. Help us out here! What are you not getting now with the Prodigy? What do you wish you could do?

-Hoax

Greg_S · Post by **Greg_S** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:59 pm

ah sorry i didn't specify =p. the sound i was going for was a big and wide one. i know that the band [reggie and the full effect] used the ibanez tube screamer on their album and in concert and it sounded amazing. the echoing notes thing for the polyrhythms sounds pretty interesting also. so if you will, please recommend some to me that fit these categories.

ebg31 · Post by **ebg31** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:03 am

Greg_S wrote:ah sorry i didn't specify =p. the sound i was going for was a big and wide one. i know that the band [reggie and the full effect] used the ibanez tube screamer on their album and in concert and it sounded amazing. the echoing notes thing for the polyrhythms sounds pretty interesting also. so if you will, please recommend some to me that fit these categories.

Might you consider plugging it into a multi-effects unit, like a Boss amp modeler, or something? You could mix and match all kinds of distortion sounds, pan delays and modulation effects. That'd be awesome with a Prodigy.

Vic · Post by **Vic** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:17 pm

a MXR Phase 90 Script, Roland DC-30, and a Krohn-Hite Oscillator. I'm Talkin' about tearing it up...

sir_dss · Post by **sir_dss** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:47 pm

How about a Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthisizer?

The Positive: It has Octave up, down, a pretty wild square wave fuzz that you can get to feedback sometimes, and the coolest thing... a filter with a sweep rate control.

On the negitive: The attack control is a bit hard to work. It works with only a single source input(unless you want it to glitch!), and you have to be careful with the faders(plastic).

I have the guitar verson and it sounds incredible with a drum machine. If using lower frequencys you may want to look into the Bass Microsynth. It the same features but voiced for lower sounds.

Also the:

Crowthers:
Prunes N Custard (a nasty fuzz with a almost random HP filter sweep)

ZVEX:
Fuzz Probe(theriminish fuzz controler),
Ooh Wah(Step filter(fake arpeggator)),
Low-Fi loop Junkie(20sec looper with modulation so it sounds like a warped
78 LP from the 1920)

and on the cheap...

some of those Danoelectric mini's are pretty cool. The one with the Fake Leslie Hmmm...I think its the Rocky Road, and the French Toast(foxx tone machine copy) I got the french toast for $17 NEW! They have some others that were not too bad and for the price.

sjm · Post by **sjm** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:55 am

As a matter of interest I used to run a Prodigy through a Line 6 Flextone amp. It's the amp with lots of amp models and effects built in. Very versatile for sprucing up the Moog sound and adding some delay or Leslie. Anyone else tried this?

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