You made me laugh out loud 1847. Now I'm eagerly awaiting an impassioned defence of the Bluesblaster by the same cat who thinks Clarksdale is a little bit of paradise here on earth.
"Are they any good?"- they are ok-but if you get an early model-80's to early 90's- they had the 151 crystal.
Last Edited by tmf714 on Jun 03, 2017 1:55 PM
In the 90's a guy gave me a Blues Blaster. After a few tries I gave it to someone else. Sad thing to do to a perfectly good shell and grill. ----------
You're right jbone. The shells are great. I have one that I put a CM element and rewired the XLR to standard. Its a good looking mic and sounds good too.
They (HOHNER) settled on a medium-format (1 3/8" diameter) crystal made in Japan, using a wider gasket to fit it to the mic's shell. Unfortunately, even raising the resistance of the HBB's volume control from 500K to over 1MEG couldn't put the bottom-end back into the HBB's response curve... OK, in brief: The original large format crystals found in the JT-30's and HBB's could sound scary-BIG when healthy (remember they ARE crystals); The newer medium-sized Japanese crystals sound extremely thin and nasal by comparison.
