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A nice combo
A nice combo
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Martin
1315 posts
Oct 24, 2017
2:20 PM
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Since I´ve been whining quite a bit on this forum, about impedances and DI boxes and the general obnoxiousness of harmonica playing, I´d like to make a positive report for a change.
Yesterday I was rehearsing with a blues band, a loud blues band, and I had not brought my amp. The available stuff (Vox AC 30 and such) were not very inviting.
So I connected my Harp Octave to my American Sound, then to a delay and then into the mixer -- everything precedeed by a DI box, of course! (I was using a lo z mic) -- and drove the colouring function ("voice") on the AS as far up as I could before feedback, then put the HO "blend" function at 12 o´clock, and fine tuned the AS even further. ("Voice" ended up around two o´clock.)
This gave me, quite simply, one of the best blues sounds that I´ve ever had, and I recommend it. Not the muddy distortion but a clear distorted sound that you could dirty up by hard cupping.
(To bad that I forgot to record, but I´ll make amends if there´s any interest.)
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1847
4504 posts
Oct 24, 2017
2:50 PM
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what di box did you get? was it the one your friend made for you?
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Martin
1316 posts
Oct 24, 2017
3:40 PM
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No, he´s a great guy but he´s oh so slow, so that one is still in the making. I bought the cheapest one Thomann had (big German on-line music store), which cost me around 10 Euros: "Millennium". Made by Thomann, presumably in China.
He instructed me to use it in an "inverted" manner, and it works great. That is, I don´t get any extra volume (it´s about the same as before), but I get a considerably better sound, both from amp and pedals.
Last Edited by Martin on Oct 24, 2017 3:40 PM
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