It is actually harder. I can double tongue, but I cant do it for long periods of time without going a little faster or slower without really concentrating. Why is that though?

omgsh yes i totally was interested in getting distortion and any other effect for the sax.. so my friend and i took a distortion pedal and a standard guitar amp and connected it to a microphone. This created a TON of earsplitingly loud feedback until i would play into the mic, in which i would get a nice distorted sound that was louder and "distorted". I'm not sure if there is a way to get past that nasty feedback, tho my friend reccomended getting a better mic. give it a try if u can and IM/ email / post the results! :P

For the electronics..... Unfortunatley to achieve a solid sound without a lot of feedback and such, you need to buy a few components that don't make cool sounds.... they help shape them. A good gate, coupled with a compressor will generally help reduce feedback even with distortion. The way my rig is set up I have an A/B box that goes to my clean and dirty amp. The dirty amp is just a small practice amp that has a drive switch on it... nothin' fancy. It does however make it easy to have a nasty distortion that won't feedback. (just mic it for the gig like a guitar player would) The key I have found is running a 31 band EQ in your rack. If you have feedback issues, just let the frequency ride out (with earpluds in) and cut it with your EQ. Another good idea is to run a small mixer. Plug your mic into CH. 1..... this will give your dry sound. Run a 1/4" cable out of your AUX out to the beginning of your effects chain. Connect the 1/4" cable at the end of your chain to a D.I. Box and run a mic cable back into CH. 2 of your mixer. On CH. 1, turn your aux knob up to your desired level. On CH. 2, gradually turn the trim and fader up to mix in your wet sound. Along with the 31 Band EQ, this will help to adjust the wider frequencies, and with the Gate it will help to cut back on feedback when using wha pedals, distortion, etc. A fun unit to play with that I haven't seen here yet.... Digitech Whammy pedal!!! to hear examples of how I work with electronic effects go to www.electrosonicsmusic.com or www.myspace.com/electrosonics The Happiest Bunch of Kid's You'll Ever Meet is a fun one (and a good example of why you should get a EQ and Gate/Compressor as this was before I picked one up)

how about the most annoying... finger high A on the left hand, Eb on the right then lip up and down until your band director tells you to stop which will be after about a second and a half

What effects can you achieve without any equipment other than the regular school band setup?