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This is also my first posting here.
I want to add that a microphone has a different impedance than a guitar. A lo to high impedance transformer (I use a Audix T50k) must be used. This is not only because of the level it’s also because of the sound.
My expiriences have shown that a microphone + effects is not useful in loud conditions because of feedback. I’m using a transducer. The same construction wich was used 30 years ago. You see sometimes saxes of this periode with the transducer mount on the neck.
Good news is that my transducer matches the impedance of guitar effects. Bad news is, that it is really hard to find one of the old transducers. The transducers produced today are crap or way to expensive.
Would be fun if EHX or other companys would discover sax players (pickup systems)!
By the way..the QTron+ was the only auto-wah that worked for me .

have fun

Thanks for the reply. We also are using what I think are transducers. We have been using telex brand: http://www.intercomheadsets.com/category.php?cid=56. I don’t remember what value we are using but we drilled a hole in the mouthpiece and shove it right in. It works much better than a mic. What transducer do you use?

That makes perfect sense. Thanks so much. I found plans for a Simple Square Wave Shaper pedal I think I will make.

SUCCESS!!!!
Last night we played around with pre-amps, compression, mixers, pickups vs. mics etc…some stuff sounded good but nothing triggered the distortion.
What finally did it was running a Flange and (or) the Q-Tron before the distortion.–Thanks Julian. If anyone has any ideas why these kind of effect triggered the fuzz I’d love to hear it so we can try other stuff.
We will need to some work to keep the feedback from going crazy but it was difinetly working, usable, and sounding exactly like we hoped it would.
Thanks for all or your time peeps.

we don’t have one….how will it help with the fuzz?

We tried heavy eq’ing and it didn’t effect the way the sax interacted with fuzz/distortion that much…
Refreshed myself on money the sax sounded good but there wasn’t a lot of effect on it was there?

There is nothing “wrong” about the fuzz/distortion tone but there really isn’t anything “right” either. When ran through the fuzz/distortion pedal the sax is just “hotter” it isn’t like there is any kind of real “dirt” or fuzz in the tone.

We’ve tried a DOD American Metal (I know it’s cheesy but we are trying different stuff). We also tried a clone Fulltone Fuzz ’69 pedal (We tried it with all different settings on the four control knobs and even played with the trim knob on the back). We tried a few boosts too to see if we could overdrive the signal and get some grit that way.

We did play with the Micro Pog and while that gave us some cool sounds it did not help us when used in conjunction with fuzz/distortion.

We did not try using the Q-tron before the fuzz but we did try the reverse.

We tried using a mixer before the effects to help correct for impedance and leveling problems. It didn’t help the sax to interact better with fuzz or distortion but we were able to make the mixer clip. The clipped sound wasn’t super usable but it reaffirmed my thinking that sax fuzz is possible. If we could get grit/distortion out of the mixer there should be some way to get a usable grit/distortion/fuzz out of a pedal.