Popculture Chameleon
85 posts
Jul 21, 2015
2:19 PM
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I have thought about experimenting a little with the sound of my harp playing through the effect pedals on my board. I love a lot of the songs from guitar greats that is strictly music driven like Eric Clapton's singe- SRVs Little Wing etc. I was wondering if there were certain pedals out there that I could use to get that kind of growling bluesy guitar sound- any thoughts or ideas
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Barley Nectar
856 posts
Jul 21, 2015
2:55 PM
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I'm not a pedal guy save delay BUT. I have a '57 Oahu Bumble Bee amp that, when pushed, sounds like a LP into a Marshall. Mine has the 12AX7. Older ones used an octal preamp tube that I can't recall the number of?? The bright yellow amp just freekin screams?...BN
Last Edited by Barley Nectar on Jul 23, 2015 1:20 PM
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waltertore
2865 posts
Jul 21, 2015
3:56 PM
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here is a song I did with amplified harp that sounds like a guitar gone nuts. I just overdrove the harp to death and played a million notes a minute. Walter
harp of the future
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SuperBee
2740 posts
Jul 21, 2015
8:10 PM
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i remember listening to 'hard again' one night when it dawned on me that what i was digging was not a guitar as i'd been thinking, but a harmonica...i had to go check who was playing that harmonica that sounded like a riffing guitar...
i had probably been drinking a bit though...that is probably the most likely effect
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nowmon
39 posts
Jul 22, 2015
5:42 AM
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I think if you overdrive harp ,turn it up,then control your bending and note choise you can sound like loud slide guitar.i`ve done it...
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dougharps
973 posts
Jul 22, 2015
5:59 AM
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With appropriate note attack, timbre, effects, techniques, and note choices:
Harp can be made to simulate a horn, sort of...
Harp can be made to simulate an organ, sort of...
Harp can be made to simulate a distorted, altered guitar, sort of...
Effects alone can't do the job. You have to bring the instrument you want through your playing, with effects helping you by altering the sound.
The best way to sound like a guitar is to play a guitar.
These days I kind of like the sound of harp being harp. I like it when it is played in the styles of different instruments (horns, organ, guitar), but still being harp.
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Doug S.
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kudzurunner
5575 posts
Jul 22, 2015
6:55 AM
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I think that one mistake people who ask this question often make is assuming, unconsciously, that the "guitar sound" is the sound of a heavily fuzzed guitar, shredding. But of course there are many sorts of blues guitar playing. My four favorite blues guitarists--B.B., Albert, Freddy, and Albert Collins--don't shred. The overdrive that they use, when they use overdrive, doesn't come from pedals, but rather from tube amps turned up.
What interests me is whether a harp player can get enough of any of those four guitarists into his playing that a listener might actually say, "That sounds like B. B." Or "That sounds like Albert Collins." Some day, when I've got time and focus, I'm going to sit down and woodshed with those guys' records, on harp, and see what I can do.
I can promise you that I won't be using pedals.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jul 22, 2015 6:56 AM
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