[Harp-L] Found a Cheap Tube Amp Alternative

["Jonathan Metts" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to thank Sloppy Joe for giving me a tip on this excellent little 
piece of electronics.  The ART Tube MP is a vacuum tube microphone preamp 
that can also function as a "direct box".  It has some nice features that 
I'll probably never use, but the most important things are:

1. I can plug my Green Bullet into it, then run a line to the PA, and it 
sounds like I'm playing through an expensive harp amplifier.  (Breakup, 
distortion, etc. but without ruining the harp tone.)

2. It costs less than fifty dollars at Musician's Friend, including 
shipping!

Tonight was my first time playing at the blues jam with this thing, and it 
impressed several people in the audience.  I've never played with the Harp 
Commander, but the ART Tube MP seems to offer the same core functionality 
(minus a lot of bells and whistles, naturally) for a fraction of the cost.

Jonathan Metts