I went to a small club tonight where we are playing next weekend. The band was some friends who play mostly blues. Anyway, my band doesn't play blues and I was offered a chance to sit in. About a month ago, I bought a Harmonica Honker mic and I had it in the car in my gig bag. I have to say, this mic has worked really well for me. I plugged into the PA tonight, turned the tone up to "dirty" and it sounded really good. It took about 10 seconds to get a volume level and that was all that it needed. I held off on buying this for quite awhile for a silly reason. I didn't like the name. I didn't want to "honk." I just wanted to fatten my sound. In the band I'm in, we run everything through the PA. I was playing through an SM58, and it was OK. But I have played the last 3 weekends with the Honker and it's better for what we do. I can run clean for country (actually, I have never yet run completely clean), but when we do something that needs a little more overdrive sound, all I have to do is change the setting. My MySpace page has a little sample (it's on the Improptu Blues song). that link is: www.myspace.com/wspudmusic I love it when something works for me. Steve Webb in Minnesota