Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica Honker

[Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, I had a Harmonica Honker for a couple of years and liked it a lot.
For cleaner tones and good hand effects it is a great harp microphone.  I
was moving in the opposite direction from you -- more toward tube amps and
an urban blues sound -- so I played it less and less and eventually sold it.

Two caveats -- I noticed a fair amount of handling noise, but that may have
just been my clumsy playing style.  Also, the battery is lithium, about $10,
and expensive to replace if you leave the unit switched on by mistake and
run the battery down.  The battery lasts a very long time if you are careful
to switch it off when not playing, but there is no pilot light to alert
you.  There may be one now on the current model of the mic.

Still, I recommend the Harmonica Honker for the application you describe
here.

-Rick Davis
The Blues Harp Amps Blog
http://www.bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/



On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> I've been playing thru an SM58 Shure vocal mic directly thru the PA and it
> works pretty good. But I'd like to fatten the sound and I haven't yet found
> the right thing. I have a Harp Commander, and it works well, but I still
> would like to try something else.
> I have been researching the Harmonica Honker and wonder what experiences
> anybody on this list has had with it?
> We don't play blues and I don't want a distorted sound. I have amps and
> mics for that. I want a fairly clean sound that I can fatten a little and
> have some control over. Our music is a pretty wide mixture of acoustic-style
> things. We run an acoustic guitar t hru the PA and an electric bass thru the
> PA and have no amps.
> I hate to spend $200 bucks on something just to try it out.
> Thanks in advance.
> Steve Webb in frigid Minnesota
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