Fwd: [Harp-L] ART Tube MP for PA re-send

["John K." <jkuzloski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oooops.  I previously clicked send too soon.  Apologies.  Here is 
what I wanted to post.
My 2 cents on the Tube MP for PA.  I haven't tried it in awhile 
because I ruled it out for that purpose some time ago -- seemed too 
clean even though it has a tube in there.  I think it warms things 
up, but it is clean -- designed for recording even vocals I think.  
The harp commander works grerat for this as has often been 
discussed.  What I also found to work well for my taste is the Boss 
Fender Bassman (FBM) pedal with a DI behind it (a not-so-poorman's 
HC?  the FBM-1 is $150 new)). I have no experience with the Boss 
Blues Driver pedal (price or sound-wise), so I don't know how it 
compares to the FBM.

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, B Boggs <ceudoazul@...> wrote:

Last night I used a Boss Blues Driver pedal into a DI box into PA 
(once again- KUDOS to Peter "Madcat" Ruth for sharing a good tip). A 
Turner bullet with one of Steve Warner's Thunderharp mic elements was 
plugged into the pedal and got a distorted quality that was nice for 
the blues. Chris Dracup played (excellent slide, blues 
guitarist/singer in Albuquerque) played through PA with acoustic 
Martin mic'ed- no guitar amps. Everything I brought to the open mic 
was in a small carry-on size bag. I played with Chris and later with 
two other guitarist/singers and once I adjusted gain on the pedal, it 
sounded decent. Now, I am curous and may check out the ART Tube MP 
mentioned below. Has anyone AB'd the Boss Blues Driver/ DI rig and 
ART Tube MP for playing into a PA?  Not needing a DI box makes a 
blues jam/open mic rig even simpler.  Chris Dracup mentioned the Harp 
Commander and I said the pedal/DI was a "poor man's harp commander." 
I have never heard the Harp Commander.
   
   
   
  Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 23:57:51 -0600
From: "Jonathan Metts" <jonathan@...>
Subject: [Harp-L] Found a Cheap Tube Amp Alternative
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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 




       
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