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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on August 16, 2009 at 7:19am

Iv no experience of drum machines Smojo, but I do have an old Zoom 707 II guitar effects pedal which has a useable range of drum tracks built in. It cost about £30 2nd hand, and is simple 'push button' operation - plus ya get 100s of effects too.... and a wah wah pedal to play with!!

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Permalink Reply by smojo on August 16, 2009 at 7:21am

Ta Ben. I have a zoom effects pedal already. Looking for something that includes bass patterns too.

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on August 16, 2009 at 7:36am

That would be great - let us know if you find something!!

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Permalink Reply by jim on August 16, 2009 at 8:24am

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm here is a cool one thats FREE! on line

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Permalink Reply by smojo on August 16, 2009 at 8:35am

Thanks Jim, interesting but doesn't meet the criteria of being a non-PC unit.

jim said:

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm here is a cool one thats FREE! on line

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Permalink Reply by Raymond Overman on August 16, 2009 at 4:37pm

Jim,

I've had a love of pushing buttons for a long time and I like the Korg products. A second hand ES1 or ER1 from the bay would probably set you back around $100-200. The ER1 is a simple 4-bar beat machine. It has a lot of synth and drum sounds built in and some knobs and buttons to effect them. The ES1 is a sampler so you can add your own drum kit samples or synth samples or even vocals. Whatever you can imagine.

If you have a little more green, a Korg KP3 ($400) has the effects, sampler, and a cool interface. I just picked one of these up and running (along with a kaossilator a few months back) and it's a lot of fun to play with. I don't know how well it would gig since it's finger driven rather than pedal but it does have MIDI in and out so that may be as simple as adding a midi controller pedal.

In the past I also had a Korg ESX1 ($450-500) sampler and I wish I'd never sold it over 8 years ago. It's a powerful piece of equipment in the right hands (which mine weren't).

That said, I ran my latest blues bowl through the KP3 the other night and played around with a few samples and effects. Pretty neat but it would be cumbersome trying to work with both real time. Setting up a bass line or drums behind a guitar wouldn't be too bad though.

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Permalink Reply by Jerryrig240 on August 16, 2009 at 11:24pm

Find you a old set of headphones, the bigger the better.....take the headphones off the head peice, put them on a peice of wood, add some duck tape, and there ya' go....junk percusion. You will need a biger male jack for your amp. I run mine through a old karioki machine cranked to the max. I have a license plate taped to one of mine and I get better sond ouf of the biger headphones, even a old small speaker will work I think. Just you tube it and you will find a ton of people out there that are making stomp boxes.

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