Re: [Harp-L] Re: Why Use an Effects Pedal?

[Tim Dougherty <timd@xxxxxxx>]

Hey, you all took this in a direction I hadn't anticipated, and I love 
it!  What I was really asking (in a poorly worded question) was more of 
utility, and not so much a style thing.  I was really expecting answers like:

You use an EQ to help with feedback

You use slapback to make a "bigger" sound

You use reverb to wetten (?) up a dead room

Of course, those are obvious.  I was hoping somebody would come forward 
with some sort of secret formula, a concoction of effects that provided the 
coveted "monster tone", or something along those lines.  Again, I am a 
"direct" player, and have been for all of my ten or so years on 
harmonica.  I really didn't mean to take sides or stir up a debate related 
to style.  Of course there are styles of playing that lend themselves to a 
"spacy" sound, or a pure undistorted tone, or to a fat, muddy Blues 
growl.  To each his (her) own.  But you all have convinced me that I need 
to experiment a little, and that I will do!

By the way, anybody got a delay I can borrow...?

Regards,
Tim Dougherty
www.HarpMicGaskets.com


At 03:35 PM 10/10/2004, you wrote:
> I'm in agreement with Iceman here.
>
> Not about waterless cooking.
>
> But about the "natural" harmonica sound. (Such as it is when being
> amplified).
>
> About the only time I'll use delay is if I'm playing in a particularly
> "dead" room.
>
> I believe less is more. I've heard musicians pull out all kinds of effects,
> and it becomes a big circus show focusing on what neat-o sounds they can get
> through a myriad of effects rather than the music itself.
>
> Ray.
> --
> www.resgraphics.com/music
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> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:50:00 -0400
> > From: IcemanLE@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Why use an effects pedal?
>
> >
> > The Iceman
> >
> > PS -  I've discovered waterless cooking, in which the natural flavors 
> of foods
> > are so pronounced that use of spices is almost unnecessary. Likewise, 
> at this
> > time, I am enjoying a most natural harmonica sound w/out enhancements 
> (except
> > for a light glazing of delay).
>
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