The Wazinator Classic KSB319 is a trusted professional live performance acoustic stompbox. This patented design uses air compression to activate the pickup. The deep tone generated by stomping the timber pad is highly musical. The KSB319 is the perfect accessory to the acoustic guitar or percussion rig. Add beautiful bottom end stomp to your next performance.
How does it sound?
It's huge and most importantly musical. The Wazinator KSB319 has a hefty low end with a round and woody tone. The frequency response fits perfectly below an acoustic guitar making it the ultimate companion for a solo artist. OR if your a percussionist this is a very portable acoustic kick drum.
Quality construction
The Wazinator KSB319 is hand made and tested for build quality and sound quality. Made from plantation grown renewable pine and worked into an acoustic resonant shape. The electronic components are imported and assembled in Australia.
Grip
The tough foam backing is designed to give you the ultimate grip whether on a timber, carpet or concrete stage.
Pick Up System
The pick up system is an original design owned by Wazinator Australia. It is a pump action unit that is akin to having your foot directly connected to the woofers in the PA system or your bass amp. The unit is also sensitive to acoustic sounds made by your foot on the timber pad.
Feedback Resistant
Feedback is a common problem with homemade stomp boxes. The microphone in the box can pick up vibrations in timber stages and transfer the rumbling sound to the speakers causing a low end feedback loop.The main cause of this feedback is from boosting the lowfrequencies very high. The Wazinator generates it's bottom end using a patent pending pump action design and requires little low frequency boosting. The KSB319 is also inherently resistant to feedback at high volumes.
Built in safely valve
The Wazinator KSB319 is equipped with a safety valve that lets excess air out when you kick hard. This safely feature is designed to prevent you from blowing your speakers with an all mighty stomp. The valve acts like an gain compressor and in no way effects the sound quality at lower pressure stomps, it only affects very heavy stomping.
Passive pickup design
The pickup on the KSB319 is entirely passive. The main advantage of a passive design is that it needs no power supply. Also there are no flat batteries to worry about during a live performance. An average stomp produces about -8 dB of gain which is about the same as an electric guitar with hummbucking pickups. This means it is suitable for direct input into a bass amp, but may need a preamp boost into a mixing desk.
Frequence graph for one stomp
Frequency vs Gain taken from the PAZ-Frequency analysis plug-in from Waves
The graph shows the peak frequency response for a standard "stomp" on the Wazinator KSB319. Notice the strength of the low end signal. This is great for that thudding sound but equally important is a touch of upper frequencies. Around 1000 Hz represents the acoustic tone of the Wazinator and lets it be heard in the mix.
SPECIFIFCATIONS:
- Height timber foot pad - 24mm foot pad,
- Height top of pickup - 62mm
- Width - 358 x 355mm
- Weight - 1.25Kg
- Output Jack - 6.35mm unbalanced guitar jack
- Weight stress - designed to hold the full weight of adult on timber pad
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