Re: Auto-Wah for Harp

[Ray Beltran <rbeltran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:50:01 -0000
> From: "Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Auto-Wah for Harp
> 
> IronManCurtis wrote:
>> I like to use effects like salt, lightly and sparingly,
>> to impart a slight variation in my harmonica sound.  A
>> little salt brings out the natural flavor.  Too much makes
>> it unpalatable.
> 
> I'm trying to wipe away any vestiges of the harp sound and leave
> something that sounds like a synth trumpet.  I'm thinking that an
> overdriven tube preamp run into an envelope filter, followed by
> chorus and octave effects will leave pretty much nothing sounding
> like a harmonica coming out of the speakers...
> 
> - -tim ;-)

Let me start off by saing that I'm not a big effects guy at all. I had the
opportunity to attend some of the Masterclasses back in the 90's and recall
one year when Lee Oskar did a seminar on effects and pedals. He was able to
achieve all sorts of wild, incredible and totally useful sounds through
effects and used them accordingly in different types/styles of music.
Interesting to listen to; again, not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate
what he was doing with chorus pedals, flangers, etc.

Ray.