Over Drive + Ukulele = ?
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darkwater
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If you have an acoustic-electric it'll probably feed back. Solid body ukes are great for playing around with distortion and other effects.
Brad Bordessa
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Yes. I find overdrive and fuzz sound the best with my SBT pickup. Distortion is pretty fizzy, but maybe with a different pickup things would change. Feedback will be harder to fight, but I haven't found it THAT much harder to fight. An anti-feeedback notch keeps things under control for me. Try it. You're not going to break anything unless you push a nice acoustic amp super hard and blow out the tweeters (at least I've heard you can do that).
donzamacleod
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It is awesome!! But like the guys above said solid body wont feed back as much. Eleuke is quite cheap and will be perfect to play around with distortion.
kissing
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It's been attempted many times;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqY6OPtJzQ
Just search "electric ukulele" on Youtube
Works best with a solid-body uke. However, you can pull it off with an acoustic electric if you mess around with the knobs (but you may get some feedback issues)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqY6OPtJzQ
Just search "electric ukulele" on Youtube
Works best with a solid-body uke. However, you can pull it off with an acoustic electric if you mess around with the knobs (but you may get some feedback issues)
ichadwick
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I have a Jupiter Creek baritone and Risa tenor, both solid-body steel-string ukes. I play them through a couple of amps - a JS8 eBand for one - and often crank the drive up, or use an amp sim that has fuzz or distortion built in. Reverb, echo, chorus, flange, delay - use all the effects. Sounds great. Not at all uke-ish, though, sounds just like an electric guitar. But when you want to play the blues, there's nothing like a bit of overdrive to make it dirty.
ichadwick
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I like that idea - the precursor most of all (having to drink the beer first...).
eleukeusa
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We've collected a bunch of videos on our site of people using all kinds of pedals with EleUkes. One of my favorites is distortion + wah wah as shown by Pedro Da Silva (jump to 0:50 to skip his intro, 1:40 for wah wah, 2:26 for shredding, 3:00 for left hand only...)
