I played Hohner Marine Band Crossover harmonica in A through a microphone with Turner shell and a vintage Shure black label controlled reluctance element (black label CR) that was manufactured 1952. The element sounds great! It was bought at Greg Heumann’s superb harmonica site www.BlowsMeAway.com.
The microphone was connected into vacuum tube preamplifier BEHRINGER Tube Ultragain MIC200 connected into DIGITECH Vocal 300 multieffects pedal connected into BOSS BR-1200CD digital recording equipment. Bass & drums tracks were created in BOSS BR-1200CD. No guitar amp was used.
Arne: The Harp Attack I bought from you is great for both PA and amp.
But now when I plugged in directly to recording equipment it was a little too hot. Maybe I haven't learned to adjust it properly. The Behringer was milder and the signal wasn't too strong when I used that.
Sorry folks. I will continue on english. When you use Harp Attack or a line out from a amp directly in to a recording equipment it often be to hot. To avoid this and to avoid ground humming in some PA:s it's great to have a DI box with -20db to -40db pad function. My choice is a passive box, without batteries.
sweet! real Charlie Musselwhite feel to it. Hey...wait a minute. Doesn't Charlie use a blowsmeaway mic? :) Hummm....I'm sensing a pattern here. ---------- MBH Webbrain - a GUI guide to Adam's Youtube vids FerretCat Webbrain - Jason Ricci's vids (by hair colour!)
Extremt bra indeed! An extremely enjoyable demonstration, thank you Hakan. May I ask what the DIGITECH pedal added to the mix? Was it simply reverb/delay, or are you doing more with it than that?
Wow, wow, wow. That is some serious bad-ass harp playing there. Love the top-of-the-harp stuff. And the sound you are getting ampless is superb. Thanks Hakan, you are indeed an inspiration. ----------
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bluemoose: I listened a lot to Charlie Musselwhite and Paul Butterfield albums in the 80s-90s when I tried to learn harmonica. But I also like how James Cotton plays slow blues.
yonderwall: Thanks! I think I am just used to the DIGITECH pedal since it is always there. Sometimes I bypass it. In this case when I have a great vintage mic I don't maybe want to add heavy metal distortion. But I used it to adjust bass-mid-treble and some nice preset with a little distortion. Not to take over the sound from the mic, but just enough to enhance the wonderful black CR sound. I didn't use delay. The reverb effect is from the BOSS recording equipment.
