Re: [Harp-L] New James Cotton cd

[Robert Rowe <robertrowe2@xxxxxxx>]

I don't hear anything synthetic or unusual in the harp tone. I've heard a lot more compression with some amp/mic/player combinations. I really like his tone here. 

I really like the album as well (downloaded and listened through iPhone and very high-end headphones as soon as you posted - as good as it gets here in the hospital).  What a fine collection of featured artists!  JC let's them shine while he makes his own humble yet profound contribution. The man has more class in his little finger...

Kelly

On May 17, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <Had a chance to listen to James Cotton's new Cd on the Alligator website http://www.alligator.com/albums/Cotton-Mouth-Man/ and it <sounds strangely like he is playing through an amp modeling pedal. The tone of the harp has that compressed sound inherent in <pedals like the Digitech. What do you hear? amp or digital emulator? Not that it really matters. I just feel like starting a <thread. I was listening to it through a pa connected to my computer. 
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> "That compressed sound inherent in pedals like the Digitech"?  
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> I thought we were past this nonsense about amp modelers having a weird sound that makes them instantly distinguishable on record from a "real" amp (you know, the kind of amps that grow from special Amp Trees somewhere in the natural world).  Amp modelers don't have an "inherently compressed" sound any more than amps do.  (and of course, tube amps happen to compress whatever sound is put through them.  But never mind.) 
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> In any case, by the time an instrument has been recorded, mixed, and mastered for a commercial release, it's usually been through 2-3 stages of compression and/or limiting at a minimum.  Don't blame it on the amp modeler. 
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