Anybody tried playing keyboards thru guitar pedals?

[faizal_rocks]

Can it be done? Just curious. If so, wat r the results?

 

[BlackMoo]

Sure it can be done, like boss/roland's products, their pedals are meant for keyboards/synths as well as guitars. Why not .

 

[faizal_rocks]

Hmm ok..so I have a Yamha DGX-205 keyboard and say I wanna play my Boss Digital Delay pedal thru it, so how do i do the connections?

 

[DoubleBlade]

Classical music on distortion.... :lol:

 

[iansoh]

the pedals will basically work for anything that outputs an analog signal. u can put your cd player through it and it'd work. the connections are the same as you would connect a guitar to pedals.

where such 'gadgets' are concerned, probably keyboardists would use the wah-wah pedal the most. maybe a reverb or EQ as well.

 

[BlackMoo]

Just connect as usual, 1/4 jack input, then to output to amp.

 

[faizal_rocks]

Ok lets say my keyboards has a sustain output jack and a phones/output jack. Does this mean i connect the cable from the sustain jack into the input jack of the pedal and the output jack of the pedal to an amp?

 

[BlackMoo]

It should be. The output la basically.

 

[Cheez]

Ok lets say my keyboards has a sustain output jack and a phones/output jack. Does this mean i connect the cable from the sustain jack into the input jack of the pedal and the output jack of the pedal to an amp?

No. The sustain jack is for the sustain pedal. You should connect the phones/output to the guitar pedal. Only make sure that you adjust the gain of the pedal and the volume of the keyboard carefully since the keyboard is using line output and the signal is high - will blow you amp if you turn on too high.

 

[Arthen]

Yeah, and the results were pretty cool. Here's a track in which I ran the Korg Triton Studio through the Ibanez Tubescreamer, using one of the combi sounds, and it really got the effect I wanted for the mood of the track!

http://www.audivarius.com/audivarius_mp3s/Teo - Streets Of Rage Main Theme Remix.mp3

A cover of the main theme of the old classic Sega game, Streets of Rage 1 (A.K.A Bare Knuckle). Gotta love classics.......


Teo
http://www.audivarius.com

 

[AiraTekkan]

pro lah. streets of rage was one of my fav games...

 

[nebo1981]

IMHO..
the nicest effects with keyboard are chorus and wah,
most differance also ~

feel dat distortion only adds kind of an "ambience" ...

 

[AiraTekkan]

hey Teo..cool webbie you got there..

any plans on doing the Streets of Rage 1 songs?

 

[Arthen]

There's actually the ending theme from SOR 2 that I really would love to do, but if there's time....I love all the stage themes from SOR 1, but i doubt I would do any of them anytime soon. SOR rules.

I'd love to experiment sometimes with all kinds of results by running wierd stuff through and out, etc. As long as it serves the purpose of what I need, that kinda technique (in fact speaks for all) doesn't necessarily need to be the highlight of the mix..ultimately we serve the music, and not the techniques.