Settings to make electric violin sound like electric guitar?

Question:What settings would make my Yamaha 4 string electric violin sound like an electric guitar like in Green Day or Aerosmith. I have a pedal, which can be found at this link http://www.bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp...

and my amp is the bottom one at this link
http://www.randallamplifiers.com/product...

please help!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What settings would make my Yamaha 4 string electric violin sound like an electric guitar like in Green Day or Aerosmith. I have a pedal, which can be found at this link http://www.bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp...

and my amp is the bottom one at this link
http://www.randallamplifiers.com/product...

please help!

Wow nice gear! You should be able to get the sound you want with that.

On the pedal you may want to turn the tone and color knobs down. You may want to try turning your tone down on the amp too in. It will take some playing around to get it right. You may want to try listening to a song with the sound you want while you dial it in.

Also you should try to play your violin in a way that makes it sound like a guitar. Maybe shorter strokes with the bow.

Good luck.

I can only give you general advice and suggestions, as I am unfamiliar with your violin and your amp. So, with grain of salt in hand...

First off, your amp looks like quality - 15w of tube should be more than enough to get you what you need. I'm a pretty big fan of the EL34 power tubes as well, they have lots of midrange "bit" when hit the right way.

I am not familiar with the impedance of the electric violin, and that is a significant question. If you plug your violin into your amp and hear very little, even when turning your amp up very loud, than you need a "DI" box between your amp and your first pedal. I have a feeling you don't, but I thought I'd mention it.

Assuming you've gotten that figured out, I would start with the distortion on your amp and see if you can make that work, without using the pedal at all. If you don't need a clean sound, and go dirty the whole time, then a one-channel amp won't hold you back at all! If you do need a clean sound, then make that amp sound sweet with your violin, and use the stompbox as the equivalent of your "rhythm crunch".

I would start my quest for tone by going for a "rock" overdrive - plenty of mids, moderate gain, bass roll-off, and just as much treble as is needed. The other popular alternative is the "metal" EQ - boost bass and treble, and cut mids as much as possible. Depends on your application I suppose.

The pedal's tone button will act in that sense - if the tone is high it will let more treble through, if it's low it will result in a darker sound. I would starr with the color button more to the left (is that the overdrive side? Start with the overdrive side) with medium to low gain and compare the tone as you slowly nudge each knob over. There is a definite relationship between tone and gain - sometimes a low tone setting will mask gain settings that are actually too high.

If you continue to have problems getting the tone you want, I would suggest investing in an EQ pedal - this will give you very definite control over your signal, making cutting mids or boosting highs or whatever very easy.

included a basic link about distorting violin-like instruments

I hope some of this has helped.

Saul