bigd, the Commando is very versatile, easy to dial in, very broad range of tones. Add the Dano Explorer and I've got a big boomy package! The snakeskin Kendrick gets played a lot too, great blues tone, with a line out, so I can run it to a PA. I like the smooth dark tone of the Gibsons a lot too. All are nice and can get me there tone wise though. Rick, The pedal on the right is simply filling a slot, I sold my LW Tone + because it was a little redundant with the LW Harp Break in the middle. It's a Boss chorus, I wouldn't find a use for it with harp. Thinking about an octave pedal, but need to play one, the Boss Octave pedal I had was nearly useless for harp. I have a Vintage 47 spring reverb so I don't need another reverb pedal. I don't use many pedals with harp. All of my amps pretty much giive me the tone I want, the delay rounds out the sound and I like a little reverb too. I will use both, but often it's one or the other. The Harp Break is a great pedal but not needed with the Danos, used sparingly with the Gibsons.
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My only amp and mic, the really basic Danelectro Honeytone $20 amp, and an Astatic by Hohner JT30RH.
Last Edited by IndianaHarpKid on May 17, 2013 9:44 PM
Kalamazoo model 2 (with line out) Mission Chicago 32-20 (2x 10) 5F1 clone Masco 17n VHT special 6 (stock circuit with upgraded tubes and vintage Jensen) Epi Valve junior (with lone wolf mods)
Harp Break Pedal Harp Tone Harp Delay
The VHT with the Harp Break sounds fantastic The Mission 32-20 with Harp Break sounds fantastic The Kalamazoo with no pedal (volume on 6 and tone on 3 and no tremolo) sounds incredible Masco 17n sounds great but can't get past level 2 on volume control without feedback.
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I've been wanting to post in this thread for a while. Finally figured out how to post pictures, so, here they are:
I got this '95 Fender Blues Deluxe second hand about five years ago. As you can see, it's pretty beat up. A cat used it for a scratching post. I got rid of the stock tubes and put in some old ones I had lying around. I got rid of the stock 12 inch speaker and put in 2 10s from the 70s, given to me by a friend. It sounds great now.
I got this '62 Fender Concert from Tom Lavin in the '70s. It too is pretty beat up.
These are my "go to" amps. You can probably tell that in my world sound is everything, looks mean nothing. My Deluxe gets more play these days, because of the smaller rooms I play in. I still play the Concert in big rooms.
Although both are my guitar amps as well, '66 fender super reverb. Mid 90's custom vibrolux reverb Mics used are '68 astatic jt30-c Late 70's shure 520d with cm element Also used is Carl Martin red repeat delay and snarling dogs bluedoo drive
Bottom row L to R is a 1960s Symphonic; 1974 Fender music master base; my new homemade with 5F2A circuit; a pine cabinet just being finished; Fender BJr
Top row is a Behringer SS; 1960s Beltone; a pine cabinet with 12" Weber I just made.
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