waltertore
1908 posts
Jan 29, 2012
11:38 AM
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I posted a video earlier that was forwarded to me with a wooden amplified harp holder. I always marvel at the skills people like Greg and this builder have. I lack these skills but am high in ideas and duct tape is my main tool :-) I decided to try the harp attached to a mic stand idea. It only took a few minutes to hook my beer can cooler up to one and set it up in the position my harp rack would normally be. I added a layer of studio foam around the cooler when I discovered wrapping it around it deadend the sound some. Here is my first attempt. I am using a small studio talk back mic stuffed inside the cooler with studio foam around the inside of the cooler. I run the mic into a vintage altec lansing 1592A 5 channel mixer. I use 1 channel for the harp. I plug that direct into my audio interface (MOTU 2408mk3). I think the results are decent. People here have sort of reignited my fondness for amplified harp-thanks! Walter
PS: This rig cost me a total of $32- $30 for the mic and $2 for the cooler. The altec mixer set me back $200.
not worrying about the blues to come
when the birds fly south
altec mixer
harp mic
beer cooler on the mic stand
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,500+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jan 29, 2012 12:26 PM
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waltertore
1911 posts
Jan 29, 2012
2:25 PM
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here are some from the second session. Walter
link to the songs
keep the dance floor jumping
cheap wine boogie
same old game different place
where I learned about the blues
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,500+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
1920 posts
Feb 01, 2012
3:40 PM
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here is one with that same mic going through a princeton reverb. Walter
the suicide blues
link to the song
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,500+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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glhundt
2 posts
Feb 02, 2012
10:56 AM
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Cool, Walter! My rig used to be a beer cozy, too... I used a stick mic and then packed foam in between the mic and the cozy. I got about a year before the cozy lost its elasticity and had to be replaced.
I saw another OMB, Ben Prestage, doing that so the credit belongs to him. At a Kim Wilson show, I challenged Scott at Front & Center to make me something, and voila, a year later, the G-Rig was born!
G.
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waltertore
1922 posts
Feb 02, 2012
6:39 PM
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glhundt: I am glad you found a right that works for you. I am fine with the duct tape rig. Maybe I got the beer can cooler idea from you? I doubt I would take the amplified harp out to a gig because it would mean lugging another amp. As it is now I carry an entire band worth of stuff........
Here are some from tonight using an audix OM2 mic in the beer can cooler mounted to a mic stand and going into a princeton reverb.
big cities are even cold in the summer
when you have a prison record
drink and think tonite
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
3,500+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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