Re: [Harp-L] JJ Milteaus set-up

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

First of all, he may have that luscious pure warm sound in his inner ear to 
 begin with. In other words, his preconceived notion of his sound is just 
that.  This is different than "fat" tone or dirty bluesy tone.
 
Then, an SM-58 or other decent mic can be run into the PA - EQ down the  
high frequencies, tweak the mids and lows to taste, add a dash of reverb 
and/or  echo, and serve warm to an enthusiastic audience.
 
Charlie McCoy does the same thing.
 
Don't know whether JJ cups the mic or plays in front of it. Charlie doesn't 
 cup usually. 
 
It's a fun quest. 
 
On your mark, get set......
 
 
In a message dated 3/25/2010 8:27:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Getting  good sound through the PA is a perennial quest. I´ve been browsing 
Youtube  recently to find interesting examples, but nothing much has come 
up from  diatonic playing.
Any suggestions on things to listen to  on that channel?

Then as it happened, today I  played JJ Milteau´s "Blue Pacific", a live 
album, just for my listening  pleasure, and on the first cut, "Ode to Billie 
Joe" -- isn´t that  microphone straight to PA?
He´s got a luscious sound, pure and warm,  and probably a very fine mic, 
but still.
Anyone in the know on  this?

(Of course it´s "all in the player", don´t we know  that, and those 
extremely expensive boutique amps, customized microphones, amp  modelers, effects 
boxes, computors, coffee grinders and power plants we use,  if we can afford 
them, are just a teeny weeny bit of it all; in fact so  unimportant it´s 
practically inaudible.) 

Cheers,
Martin