RE: [Harp-L] gear

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saw Mark Hummel last week and he was playing through a Meteor. He had
some odd settings on it (maybe Rick Smith can chime in here, I forget
them) but I'll say one thing, he sounded pretty awesome (recognizing
that the vast percentage of that was the man, not the amp). But the
Meteor sounded pretty fine to me. I think it's cheaper than many
boutiques, if you're going that way. Right now, it's outta my league.

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Harpmac01@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:35 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] gear

Some harp players i hear have the most killer acoustic tone,  then they
blow 
through some tube/valve amp, and theres that big chicago  sound  just
awesome, 
but hold on, although these guys have great big killer  acoustic tones,
why 
is it when they put their harp to a mic that goes to an amp  and it
sounds 
awesome again? i'll tell ya why cos no one has an amp discreetly  tucked
away in 
their chest cavity somewhere (well maybe big walter, ok) make no  bones
about 
it, tubes/valves of all different kinds give different tones and
electric 
expressions, yeah sure, good chops and tone have got to be there and so
does 
there have to be a good amp there as well if you want it, i can tell
when  say 
paul lamb blows through a concert or a sonny jr, but ok maybe the
audience  don't 
know the difference between amps and  NOS tubes and wet fart but the
proofs 
in the pudding with some wicked NOS tubes in my sonny jr 4x10 and a few

deadly william clarke licks (phew i try honest) its enough for some cats
to  
mention to me after a gig, wow great sound from your thingy,ermm that
wee  blowing 
thing, ehh the mouthie,you know what i mean, but they are listening! at
the 
end of the day its all about choice viccy's, the harpking etc. and of
course 
sonny jr,for me i want the best of old brought up to date, so thats
sonny jr. 
you get what you pay for or you just get extremely  lucky!
 
mac
_www.thegroovecats.co.uk_ (http://www.thegroovecats.co.uk) 
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