[Harp-L] Re: SJ410 - Thunderharp Mics

[Ray Beltran <raybeltran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not the one you built for Mike. You installed four P10R's in that  
example, a unit that was one of your first SJ410's.

I've owned all sorts of mics, including a black label CR I bought  
from you, and nothing outdoes the ThunderHarp mics. I speak out of  
experience from from extensively playing and gigging with all of  
them, not just checkin' it out in my living room.

I'm writing a full review of the mics I have from Steve, having used  
them in all sorts of environments and playing situations. Keep in  
mind ANY of those vintage crystal or controlled magnetic/reluctance  
elements were built cheaply, and as such, had limited performance. As  
many amp builders, including yourself, have said, "you get what you  
pay for." Those old elements have limited frequency response and in  
many cases, output. They only give you so much until they "fart out."

My Thunderharp mics have a broader range of sound, and a more defined  
and substantial sound quality that those old elements. Also, as you  
increase your amp's volume, the sound "blossoms" with a Thunderharp  
mic, with increasing lows that are full and strong, gaining highs  
that hold together, and escalating in overall richness. The amp, your  
sound, shifts into another gear entirely. With a "normal" vintage  
element, when you increase the volume of your amp, you're just  
getting louder. Same sound, just louder. It's a very linear  
development, and not the dynamic, expanding increase I find from the  
Thunderharp mics.

Another benefit of using these mics is that the tone controls of my  
amps are much more useful and effective.

With every amp I've played them with, from small Silvertone 1432's to  
medium-sized Premiers, Silvertones, Bandmasters, Twins, and full-size  
SJ410's, Bassmans, Super Reverbs and others, the results are the  
same... a bigger, more fuller sound than any of my vintage Shure CM/ 
CR or Astatic elements.

My old elements have their place in my gig bag, for sure. At certain  
gigs, for a certain narrowly defined sound, I'll play through one.  
It's alright, for a while. But it isn't long until I'm exchanging it  
for one of my Thunderharp mics.

Ray.
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My Music – www.resgraphics.com/music


On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:30 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> All SJ410 came with ceramic speakers, unless someone took them out.  
> All
> these reports about THM and the SJ410,,my CR mics , according to  
> everyone that
> has bought one, are the best they ever owned. You think it might be  
> the amp and
> not the mic?