Re: [Harp-L] B3/accordion sound

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

When you ask about an accordion sound the problem is,, which accordion sound - there are many.

Accordion reeds are very similar to harmonica reeds, but the box built around them and the air delivery system make for a distinct sound.

Add to that the ability of accordions to use different combinations of reeds, anywhere from one to five reeds per note.

Single reed accordion is one kind of sound, similar to harmonica but distinctive. Then there's the octave sound, and the many different kinds of tremolo sound, both two and three reed, wet (beating fast) and dry (beating slowly), or the octave-plus-tremolo, or even double-octave-and tremolo sound.

Starting with a single-reed harmonica, you can electronically emulate accordion reed combinations in two ways:

1) Mix the original signal with one or more signals whose pitch have been shifted up or down only slightly  - by a few hertz (or two different pitch-shifted signals) to get a tremolo or musette (3-reed tremolo) effect. Each hertz (vibration per second) difference between the reed pitches will make the tremolo beat (throb) once faster per second.

2) Mix the original signal with one more more signals shifted an octave up or down (or both)

3) mix octave-shifted and detuned signals in various combinations

Some of these will sound like an accordion, while others may be cool without any reference to a specific instrument.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Tue, 7/28/09, Grant Walters <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Grant Walters <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] B3/accordion sound
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 5:31 PM

Previous messages have recently spoken about the hammond B3 sound (I assume with Diatonic harp) while using a string of effects. (POG included)(I am not my best on Chromatic or Echo)
.

Simple Question...
Is anyone using a device...one only please, that would get a tweed amp sound and combine  the B3 with Leslie sound or could also provide cool Accordion sound.
One could just play straight though to the P.A..

I have used a Chorus pedal (once in a while) over the years through a dirty sounding Tweed amp (Astatic Mic) and it was cool but limiting and gets pretty heavy (sound wise).
Only did this when the Accordion player was unavailable on a Fat Tuesday or something.

Hearing about you guys just plugging into a LIne 6 or something and getting these sounds gets me excited to visit my local pedal shop for a tryout.
Any ideas about which one (pedal) I should test drive...I could just use a vocal mic if the unit can get a little nasty too.

Thanks ahead of time for any ideas..keep on harpin...

Tryin' to keep it simple and earthy.  For special ocajun's

Grant.

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