[Harp-L] Cruncher Line Out Audio Examples

[Glenn and Debbie Woodhouse <gwoodhouse40@xxxxxxx>]

There has been a few reports recently regarding the Cruncher's true speaker-sounding line out (text from the Sonny Jr. web page description).  A few weeks ago I had a chance to plug my Zoom H4 into the sound board for a series of outdoor performance we were doing where I decided to run my Cruncher through the PA for the first time.  The first three songs on the player of our MySpace page at www.ColdRail.com reflect a pure sound board capture from the line out.

 

"Blues Overtook Me" - C Seydel 1847

"Black Cat Bone" - F 1847 - Check this tune out.  The tongue blocked/slapped notes and beating octaves gave the F harp a cool flute like feel

"Messin' With Kid" - F 1847

 

(Black Label CR in a Tuner CX shell with a touch of Lone Wolf pedal delay was used on all of this)

 

The last three songs on the player were from an earlier show that day where I used the microphones of the Zoom H4 versus a direct connection to the sound board so these recordings reflect a mix of line-out through the PA speakers and the unmic'd Cruncher speakers (I had the amp up fairly loud ~8.5'ish with the recorder maybe 60' away).

 

"Lonesome Bedroom Blues" -Bb Seydel 1847

"Born In Chicago" - D Seydel 1847

"Blues With A Feeling" - C Seydel 1847

 

So this is not a direct comparison of Cruncher speaker sound vs. line-out sound but it is a point of reference.  If I had captured the mic'd amp to the sound board that would have provided a much better comparison.  

 

My conclusion from this is and other non-line-out recordings I have is that the line-out tone is as good as I've heard from the line-out of my past Fender amps but I really prefer the sound of the Cruncher speakers and will mic the amp in the future (as I have in the past for larger venues).  I did see a reference somewhere from Gary O. to mic the 12" and run the line-out in tandem for the best results which sounds like a good plan.

 

Glenn

The ColdRail Blues Band

www.ColdRail.com