Re: [Harp-L] Covering horn parts (kind of a gear post)

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Electro Harmonix HOG or POG
Play in 11th position

>-----Original Message-----
>From: M. N. [mailto:mnessmith@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 02:37 PM
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Harp-L] Covering horn parts (kind of a gear post)
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>>From time to time I play in a pretty large band (drums, bass, guitar, keys, 
>2 singers, one or two saxes, trumpet and trombone). In this setting, the 
>horns do their thing and I serve to throw in the down home greasiness on the 
>bluesier stuff we do, answer some vocal lines, etc. Now, for some of our 
>upcoming gigs, the entire horn section will consist of: just ME. We've 
>gigged in this format before from time to time, so I'm pretty comfortable 
>covering the horn lines and approaching the whole thing differently - just 
>another hat to wear. But I got to thinking ....... Is there anything I 
>should re-consider on the gear end of things to sort of play up the punch 
>and brassiness of the instrument?
>Of late I've been playing my vintage Shure 520 mic into an ABY box and 
>running that out to A) my Harp Commander, which feeds the PA, and B) my 
>Marble Max amp. I'm very happy with this setup - power and tone galore, if a 
>little heavy on the overdriven sound.
>So I'm wondering what you guys do differently (if anything) when you're 
>wanting to get a more "horn-like" sound? Different mic? (Besides the bullet, 
>I have these in the gig bag: 545S, EV RE-10, SM57 and SM58.) Delay or echo 
>pedal? Reverb at the board? A looser, more open mic grip? Nothing at all? 
>Again, just to be clear, I don't mean what do you do different MUSICALLY, I 
>pretty well know how to play the lines. What I mean is, what do you do to 
>optimize your sound to fit in with that role?
>Thanks in advance. If nothing else, should be an interesting discussion. :-)
>MN
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