[Harp-L] Lone Wolf Tone Pedal is a winner microphone to P.A.

["Billy James" <billyjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well this afternoon, we had some fun trying out and comparing harp related gear down here on the North East Coast of Australia at Coffs Harbour. 
At the end of the day here's some of our opinions....
1. Randy's Landys very simple new Lone Wolf 'Tone' Pedal is truely effective to use through the PA. !!! 
It makes a really reliable stripped down portable amplified harp setup to the biggest amp in the house [mind you it's not a huge P.A.]
 The 'Tone Pedal' kicks in with heaps of character and in fact creates a totally 'great distorted fatter electric tone' compared to a 'normal' mic to PA response!
In fact we found it really does the job better that ArtTube Preamp [which was prone to feedback] even the Kinder Anti Feedback unit in my opinion...and it's allot cheaper. 
Having said that each of the other items have there uses and are good gear.
I also like it more than the Harp Commander quite frankly. It's very simple to use.
We tried the Kinder AFP with the Tone pedal too. 
The AFP obviously is very useful in many situations.
So if I want just to 'rock up' without an amp rig and plug in and get a really great workable tone direct to P.A. I'll be using the Lone Wolf Tone Pedal set with Bass and Treble at about Three O'clock and the volume up at say Five O'clock.
Hey and there was very little trouble with feedback issues when using the Lone Wolf Tone Pedal.
2.Of cause we compared a few new microphones and I found my Dennis Oilegg [element] Chrome Ronette has a 'very hot' beautiful pushy tone that rose above the rest. 
He's darn good that Mr Microphone 'no doubt' folks. 
I also tried my friends Mr Microphone chrome Astatic JT 30 which was a winner in it's own right. 
On the SJ410 I'm using a EV633 from Ebays [deluxe8765]Ron Sunshine.
 What a nice job that one is too,new old stock straight out of the box.
 I add the Lone Wolf Delay Pedal for a bit of slap back [it too is simply effective].
We tried out with the Lone Wolf 'Tone Pedal' a couple of EV10's and Greg Huemanns low to High Z Volume controls...nice.
3. As I've said before the Digitech RP 200 with Richard Hunters patches and a cheap plastic Labtech Microphone is a great little portable rig. I love that thing.
4. Finally I realize there are so many great amps out there but we put together four Kalamazoo Model two's today and compared them. The oldest model I did up is a ' very gnarly kicker'. It has a notch more volume. However put together in tandem through the Fat Dog Splitter they are positively awesome a very comparable to anything on the market! I would say three together may be a bit 'over kill' but two setup is a truly lively great electric blues harmonica sound. 
I'm using the Mr Microphones Ronette and the setup literally 'burns'... which by the way was a problem recently. I found that if the two prong plug is in the wrong way to the Australian transformer a 'kick' will happen between the bullet and front of house vocal microphone. The plugs are now all marked and ready to be looked at by a tech. 
So anyway, I hope that may interest someone out there. We've become big enthusiasts down here for Randys new pedal after today. 
By the way, I'm not sure I can be as positive about the Lone Wolf Tone Pedal with the amp setup yet, I prefer less pedals to amp and it 'dulls' the sound a bit rather than fatten it [maybe], but remember it's not an expensive purchase and indeed useful.
I'll get back to you on that one... some other time. 
So thanks again to all those Specialist Harp Gear Technical people for helping me get these great amped setup's I'm using. 
It allows me to get in with that 'little extra' and kick some musical electrical harmonica excitement with ease. 
"Good on You All"-BJ