Most of the time I play lipping. I just use tongue blocking for the octave splitting or other effects, flutters and so.
Danelectro: yes, I really love this vintage looking monster. Not many use them and I play with them since 15 years. It is not easy to find them so I start to collect them. When I play live I use this amp because it is "my" amp-sound I prefer.
The Laney Cub 12 is not my own. And I would never play it. It is just for demonstration for others who heard about the amp but don`t know how it can sound.
The mics: My favorite mic at this time is the Astatic Green Bullet - I think it is a brown bullet, but with green color - and the American D4. As you can hear in the video I have to turn the volume knob of the D4 down. This mic has a great output and it sounds so dynamic and fat. I really like it. The EV is a little bit softer in the output, it is okay, but it lays around.
Anyway: in most videos you hear no big difference, all sound the same. Maybe it is a technical problem.
Mario, they 3 examples you supplied clearly sound different, there is no technical problem. It's just sometimes difficult for some folks to retain a sound in the memory then compare to the next example...the latter usually "overwrites" the former. Your video would seem to ably demonstrate the different mics at a fixed amp setting. To better compare, some might find it easier to note on the timer where the changes in mic are, then jump from one sample to another...rather than let all samples play fully through in real time.
Personally I think it would be fairer to optimise the amp settings for each mic, because although you have not adjusted the amp's volume, the mics are very likely to have differing output voltages, which amounts to the same thing as adjusting the amp volume. Nevertheless, it's a decent enough comparison.
I personally preferred the American salt shaker, less raspy than the Astatic, rounder & fuller. The EV, as you state, seems to have less output but still sounds pretty sweet in the clip.
Hi Mario, nice work! The sound is good, but I suppose that YOUR sound is good, not only gear's sound :o) BTW did you try CUB 8? It's pure class A little amp, it could be nice too. Maybe someone could make a review/test of this small Laney?
Bart, I'm playing at Laney Cub 8. He has a lot of high frequencies. The sound is a bit harsh and hard. If used with the MXR 6 band EQ (as a frequency corrector and booster), it begins to sound much better.
Mark: Between all 3 clips I put a picture of the mic I used to make it clear which mic you will hear. You are right: Each mic needs its own settings. But this will be a 2 hour video clip. The different settings, why this, why that, how does it sound louder etc... My goal was only to show a little bit of the amp. BTW: I`m listen to your "Pink Champagne" Live Recording while I write this. A lot of James Harman tone.
Bart: First of all greetings from Bertram Becher, he lives around the corner and he is a good friend of mine since years. And YES: I tried the Cub 8 two months ago in a big music store in cologne and this little amp is a monster. This amp is on my list, but first I bought an amp from the USA. I bought the harp amp.....OH NO, I will tell more when it will be here.
Mario, Thanks for posting. Your playing and Danelectros sound really good!! The little Dirty Thirtys and Nifty Fiftys are often over looked in favor of more expensive tube amps. For solid state amps they sound good with harp.
