[Harp-L] Re: SJ410 - Thunderharp Mics



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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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?





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