I just saw this on eBay, and just had to have one.
Anybody seen these? I'll post a review once I get
mine.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=220041644425

I want to know how it turns out.

I just got an email from the dealer that my item has just been shipped. This was a full week after I had
ordered the item, so that's pretty darn slow. Oh well. I downloaded some of the shorter sound clips from
their website. It seems like it sounds like a regular kazoo when it's plugged in straight through an amp,
but can get really crazy sounding if it's run through some effects, which is what I intend to do. I'm hoping it
will arrive before next weekend. I'll let you know.

Well, my unit arrived last night, and I got to play around with it briefly. It's basically a cheap plastic kazoo,
with a transducer mounted on top of the buzzer. The unit only comes with a five foot cable. I started out by
plugging it straight into one of my Fender guitar amps (Champ 25SE). I could only turn up the volume a little
bit, because it feeds back like all hell. The cable wasn't long enough to allow me to step farther back from the
amp, or move sufficiently out of the range of the speaker to play it at any significant volume level. Using
just the effects on the amp, distortion and reverb, wasn't very rewarding. It basically sounded like a normal
Kazoo amplified. The distortion and reverb didn't do much enhance the tone.

To meddle around a bit more, I plugged it into my old Digitech Chorus/Flanger pedal, and used a sufficiently
long cable between the pedal and amp, to get out of the feedback zone. This was a little more fun. By
generating some low notes with my voice, and applying a lush chorus setting, I came up with a sound that was
like a bunch of Tibentan monks chanting. With a good bit of distortion on the amp, and a sweeping flange
setting, I got kind of a cool fuzzy sythesizer sound. This was fun, but since I was only able to get one cool sound
with the chorus, and one cool sound using the flange mode, It's not terribly versatile. I had to get extremely
bent with the modulation and distortion settings to make the thing not sound like a kazoo.

I think to get the best results from this unit, I'm going to have to daisy chain a lot of effects together. I'm
thinking a guitar multi-efffects processor would be the simplest route to take. I've got a couple of buddies that
own some of the latest Digitech GNX waste processors. I'll try to hook up with one of them over the weekend,
and see what happens.

I had a little more fun my Kazooka today. I tried it out with a Digitech RP-1 guitar multi-effects
processor, which is an old 16 bit unit that was state of the art around 15 years ago. With enough distortion
and a good dose of modulated effects, I was able to mask the kazoo sound, and get it to sound more like a
heavily distorted electric guitar. I was able to emulate the opening guitar riff to the Rolling Stone's
Satisfaction remarkably well, and came up with another setting that reminded me of Steve Hillage's earlier
guitar tone. (without the virtuosity of course) I also made some cool sound effects such as dive bombing
airplanes.

I'll have to take this thing out to some casual jam sessions, to see what other people make of this thing,
and find out if it is capable of really working as an actual musical instrument.

After using it a bit, I'm sure that it's not something everyone will want to run out and buy. I'm going to order
a couple more for some of the kookier musicians on my Christmas shopping list. I'll see if I can get a few
sound clips posted after I have some time to experiment with it using more effects.

Hi,

I work with one guy who wears his kazoo on a rack and with another who ties his to his mic with a rubber band. They both play straight kazoo parts, usually trumpet or sax.

Pretty good idea electric guitar kazoo. Kazoo's like any instrument. Depends on how good you play it. Played right it's great.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

I remember some editorial comment from 10-15 years ago about a well known fusion musician in the 70's taking an old guitar synth rig, thousands of dollars of equipment, and making it sound like a $2 kazoo--the article was bagging on how much technology went towards replicating that sound, without concern for the question of how best to put your kazoo through a Marshall stack. So now you can cut to the chase.

Bear