Great demo. Contratualtions to you and to Randy and Nathan over at Lone Wolf. I know that a lot of hard work went into this project. I am glad that everything worked out as well as it did. ---------- Tom Halchak Blue Moon Harmonicas
It looks like a nice product. But... is it really very different from an SM57 (other than the physical ergonomics)? It would be interesting to hear an A/B comparison.
Last Edited by AppalachiaBlues on Apr 14, 2018 11:49 AM
Jason brings up a really great question here: Where in the chain should your distortion/color come from: the mic, the pedal, or the amp? Or some combination?
"Where in the chain should your distortion/color come from: the mic, the pedal, or the amp?" That is the crux of a lot of topics we negotiate. I'd expect the answer depends on what sound you want. But the link that best accommodates harp technique (& other instruments) seems to be tubes. No new news there
Last Edited by Littoral on Apr 27, 2018 8:25 AM
The reason I prefer the mic to remain cleaner is so I can vary the distortion, compression, year to year, month to month, week to week , song to song. And NO Appalachia it is is not all that different from a 57 it is still a unidirectional instrument mic. The ergonomics and ELIMINATED handeling noise make the mic a unidirectional HARMONICA mic. The mic is no more different from a 57 than asay a turner is from an astatic.
This makes sense to me, keeping the mic clean. After trying a number of different mics, I settled on using an SM57. Sound-wise, it does what I want. And it responds well to cupping. I rely on amps and pedals to add color/distortion.
But there is certainly room for improvement on the SM57, which it seems like this new LW-Jason mic addresses: easier to hold, lighter, elimination of handling noise, volume control, etc. And you can order it wired as high-Z, which means you no longer need the transformer pigtail in your chain.
I guess 10-15 years ago, a lot of people were looking for a mic that colorfully distorts, to replicate the old taxi dispatcher bullets of the 1950s. So a lot of products like the bottle-of-blues or modern bullets were catering to this market. Or using those little cassette recorder mics that could be easily over-driven. And a lot of players hunt for, and restore, vintage bullets... but those are now harder and harder to find.
Last Edited by AppalachiaBlues on May 01, 2018 5:00 AM
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